John Maynard Keynes and the Degas Art Collection
In March 1918, with World War 1 still raging, the man who would become the twentieth century's most famous economist crossed the English Channel with a Royal Navy destroyer escort and a silver airship watching overhead. His madcap mission - to journey across the battlefields of northern France to a Paris under siege and with 20,000 finessed from the British Treasury, rescue some of the world's...