Full name: The Rape of Europa: The Fate of Europe's Treasures in the Third Reich and the Second World War

Author: Lynn H. Nicholas Year: 1994 Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: History, War/Military, Art, Award winners, Non Fiction Purchase/reserch links: Goodreads LibraryThing Amazon ISBNs: 9780679756866 0679756868

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. 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. Similar books: The Lost Museum by Hector Feliciano Rescuing Da Vinci by Robert M. Edsel The Monuments Men by Robert M. Edsel Saving Italy by Robert M. Edsel The Venus Fixers by Ilaria Dagnini Brey The Long Road Home by Ben Shepard The Forger's Spell by Edward Dolnick Last Hope Island by Lynne Olson Hitler's Empire by Mark Mazower Tears in the Darkness by Michael Norman How Hitler Could Have Won World War II by Bevin Alexander Inferno by Keith Lowe Interrogations by Richard Overy Forgotten Voices of the Second World War by Max Arthur Wartime by Juliet Gardiner 13 Hours by Mitchell Zuckoff WAR by Sebastian Junger Red Platoon by Clinton Romesha Confederates in the Attic by Tony Horwitz Indianapolis by Lynn Vincent