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Publisher
Pegasus Books
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
527 p. ; cm
Description
Reveals how the Nazis attempted to grab Europe's gold to finance Hitler's war machine during World War II, discussing how gold became their most important medium of exchange and how it influenced the fall of Berlin and the Allied victory.
Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
xiii, 352 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Description
"While the Nazi party was being condemned by much of the world for burning books, they were already hard at work perpetrating an even greater literary crime. Through extensive new research that included records saved by the Monuments Men themselves--Anders Rydell tells the untold story of Nazi book theft, as he himself joins the effort to return the stolen books. When the Nazi soldiers ransacked Europe's libraries and bookshops, large and small, the...
Author
Publisher
Yale University Press
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
xiv, 408 pages, 30 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 25 cm
Description
Bruno Lohse (1911-2007) was one of the most notorious art plunderers in history. Appointed by Hermann Göring to Hitler's art looting agency in Paris, he went on to help supervise the systematic theft and distribution of more than thirty thousand artworks, taken largely from French Jews, and to assist Göring in amassing an enormous private art collection. By the 1950s Lohse was officially denazified but was back in the art dealing world, offering...
Pub. Date
2014
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An unlikely World War II platoon has been tasked by FDR with going into Germany to rescue artistic masterpieces from Nazi thieves and returning them to their rightful owners. With the art trapped behind enemy lines, and with the German army under orders to destroy everything as the Reich fell, how could they possibly succeed? But as the Monuments Men, as they were called, found themselves in a race against time, they would risk their lives to protect...
Author
Publisher
Da Capo Press
Pub. Date
2018.
Physical Desc
vii, 294 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm
Description
"As the Red Army closes in on the Third Reich, a German colonel sends an American intelligence officer an unusual report about a POW camp soon to be overrun by the Soviets. Locked up, the report says, are over a thousand horses, including the entire herd of white Lipizzaners from Vienna's Spanish Riding School, as well as Europe's finest Arabian stallions--stolen to create an equine "master race." The horses are worth millions and, if the starving...
6) The perfect horse: the daring U.S. mission to rescue the priceless stallions kidnapped by the Nazis
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Description
"A compelling account for animal lovers and World War II buffs alike, The Perfect Horse tells for the first time the full story of these events. Elizabeth Lettss exhilarating tale of behind-enemy-lines adventure, courage, and sacrifice brings to life one of the most inspiring chapters in the annals of human valor."--Amazon.com.
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"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...
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Description
"Information Hunters examines the unprecedented American effort to acquire foreign publications and information in World War II Europe. An unlikely band of librarians, scholars, soldiers, and spies went to Europe to collect books and documents to aid the Allies' cause. They travelled to neutral cities to find enemy publications for intelligence analysis and followed advancing armies to capture records in a massive program of confiscation. After the...
Author
Publisher
Center Street
Pub. Date
2009
Physical Desc
xvi, 473 p., [16] p. of plates : ill., maps (some col.) ; 24 cm.
Description
"The previously untold story of a little-known WWII Allied division whose mission was to track down European art and treasures that had been looted by the Nazis at Hitler's command"--Provided by the publisher.
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2015.
Physical Desc
xiv, 386 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 25 cm
Description
"The world was stunned when eighty-year old Cornelius Gurlitt became an international media superstar in November 2013 on the discovery of over 1,400 artworks in his 1,076 square-foot Munich apartment, valued at around $1.35 billion. Gurlitt became knownas a man who never was - he didn't have a bank account, never paid tax, never received social security. He simply did not exist. He had been hard-wired into a life of shadows and secrecy by his own...
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2010
Physical Desc
x, 316 p., [24] p. of plates : ill., maps ; 25 cm.
Description
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.
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