art and the war

Presents the true story of how the curators at the Louvre risked their lives to evacuate priceless art and antiquities during World War II.

Presents the true story of how the curators at the Louvre risked their lives to evacuate priceless art and antiquities during World War II.

"As the most destructive war in history ravaged Europe, many of the world's most cherished cultural objects were in harm's way. The Greatest Treasure Hunt in History recounts the astonishing true story of eleven men and one woman who risked their lives amidst the bloodshed of World War II to preserve churches, libraries, monuments, and works of art that for centuries defined the heritage of Western civilization. As the war raged, these American and British volunteers--museum curators, art scholars and educators, architects, archivists, and artists, known as the Monuments Men--found themselves in a desperate race against time to locate and save the many priceless treasures and works of art stolen by Adolf Hitler and the Nazis. Robert M. Edsel, #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Monuments Men, brings this story to young readers for the first time in a sweeping, dynamic adventure detailing history's greatest treasure hunt"--.

62 home front propaganda posters from Great Britain during World War I and II.

Presents an account of those who were part of a special force of American and British curators, art historians, museum curators, and other experts who risked their lives to prevent the destruction of cultural artifacts and structures while also trying to locate missing items that had been stolen by the Nazis during World War II.

Paintings and drawings from official American Expeditionary Forces combat art commissioned during WW I.

Surveys the art produced during the World War II era in China, France, Germany, Great Britain, Italy, Japan, the Soviet Union, Spain, and the United States, each with an introductory essay that looks at the art scene prior to the conflict, and including approximately five biographies of selected artists.

Tells the riveting true story of how an American college professor turned Army sleuth recovered cherished symbols of Hitler's Thousand-Year Reich before they could become a rallying point in the creation of a Fourth, and equally unholy, Reich.

The Amber Room was commissioned by Frederick I of Prussia in 1701 and given as a gift to Russia's Peter the Great. It remained as one of Russia's, and mankind's, greatest treasures for two hundred years until the Nazis invaded Russia. The vast, intricately worked panels of amber--many times more valuable than gold-- were wrenched from their walls, packed into crates, and taken to Konigsberg on the Baltic coast where they remained until the Nazi surrender in 1945. The real Amber Room has never been seen since, although there is a replica in Russia today.