The Rape of Europa by Lynn H Nicholas

The Rape of Europa by Lynn H Nicholas

Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award
The cast of characters includes Hitler and Goering, Gertrude Stein and Marc Chagall--not to mention works by artists from Leonardo da Vinci to Pablo Picasso. And the story told in this superbly researched and suspenseful book is that of the Third Reich's war on European culture and the Allies' desperate effort to preserve it.
From the Nazi purges of Degenerate Art and Goering's shopping sprees in occupied Paris to the perilous journey of the Mona Lisa from Paris and the painstaking reclamation of the priceless treasures of liberated Italy, The Rape of Europa is a sweeping narrative of greed, philistinism, and heroism that combines superlative scholarship with a compelling drama.
Nicholas knows the art world as well as any military historian knows his battlefield. Her work deserves the widest reading.--New York Times Book Review

Lynn H. Nicholas was born in New London. Connecticut. She was educated in the United States, England, and Spain, and received her B.A. from Oxford University. After her return to the United States she worked for several years at the National Gallery of Art. While living in Belgium in the early 1980s, she began research for this book, her first. Ms. Nicholas and her husband live in Washington, D.C.

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ISBN 13	9780679400691
ISBN 10	0679400699
Title	The Rape of Europa
Author	Lynn H Nicholas
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Hardback
Publisher	Alfred A. Knopf
Year published	1994-04-12
Number of pages	498
Prizes	Winner of National Book Critics Circle Award (General Nonfiction) 1994
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