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 real story behind the major motion picture The Monuments Men. 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.

Lynn H.Nicholas was born in the city of New London, Connecticut. Connecticut is a state in the United States. She obtained her B.A. after studying in the United States, England, and Spain. from the University of Oxford After returning to the United States, she worked at the National Gallery of Art for several years.

She began research for this, her first book, while living in Belgium in the early 1980s. Nicholas lives in Washington, D.C. with her spouse.

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ISBN 13	9780679756866
ISBN 10	0679756868
Title	The Rape of Europa
Author	Lynn H Nicholas
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Random House USA Inc
Year published	1995-04-25
Number of pages	512
Prizes	Winner of Legion of Honor 1999, Winner of National Book Critics Circle Awards 1994
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