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The Monuments Men, by Robert M. Edsel
In every big disaster movie, when the aliens invade and blow up Paris or a volcano wipes out a city in Italy, my first fleeting thought is always for the art and architecture that gets destroyed before the people. I'd feel a pang when I'd read a note about a painting or a building that was destroyed during war in an art history text. So of course I ended up staying awake until 1:30 in the morning to finish Robert Edsel's history of the Monuments, Find Arts, and Archives mission in The Monument's Men: Allied Heroes, Nazi Thieves, and the Greatest Treasure Hunt in History...
Read the rest of my review at Summer Reading Project.