Saving Italy: The Race to Rescue a Nation's Treasures from the Nazis

by Robert M. Edsel

Book Overview

When Hitler's armies occupied Italy in 1943, they also seized control of mankind's greatest cultural treasures. As they had done throughout Europe, the Nazis could now plunder the masterpieces of the Renaissance, the treasures of the Vatican, and the antiquities of the Roman Empire. On the eve of the Allied invasion, General Dwight Eisenhower empowered a new kind of soldier to protect these historic riches. In May 1944 two unlikely American heroes--artist...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0393082415
• ISBN13: 9780393082418
• Release Date: May 2013
• Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
• Length: 480 Pages
• Weight: 2.07 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.6" x 6.5" x 9.6"

Customer Reviews

Interesting

I learned many new things reading this book. I had no idea that Hitler had a plan to kidnap and kill the Pope. In my opinion it wasn’t as good as The Monuments Men, but as a companion book, I’m glad that I bought it and read it.