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Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
2011
Physical Desc
viii, 375 p., [8] p. of plates : ill. ; 24 cm.
Description
Drawing on a trove of confidential museum records and frank interviews, Felch and Frammolino give a fly-on-the-wall account of the inner workings of a world-class museum and tell the story of the Getty's dealings in the illegal antiquities trade. Fast-paced and compelling, "Chasing Aphrodite" exposes the layer of dirt beneath the polished facade of the museum business.
Author
Publisher
Books on tape
Pub. Date
2017, ©2017
Physical Desc
11 CDs ( 14 hrs.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
"To Westerners, the name “Timbuktu” long conjured a tantalizing paradise, an African El Dorado where even the slaves wore gold. Beginning in the late eighteenth century, a series of explorers gripped by the fever for “discovery” tried repeatedly to reach the fabled city. But one expedition after another went disastrously awry, succumbing to attack, the climate, and disease. Timbuktu was rich in another way too. A medieval center of learning,...
Publisher
Platinum Disc Corp
Pub. Date
c2003
Physical Desc
1 DVD (ca. 43 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Portrays a bombing mission over Germany during World War II, including preparations for the raid, the takeoff from England, the flight, bombing the submarine base at Wilhelmshaven, and the return to base.
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
2010.
Physical Desc
2 blu-rays (298 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
In the waning days of World War II, a ragtag group of American soldiers sneak across enemy lines to steal a Nazi trove of art and gold; when an American general is captured by Nazis, a British commando team is sent in to find him before he reveals plans for D-Day.
Author
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.
12) Fearless Jones
Author
Series
Fearless Jones novels volume 1
Publisher
Wheeler Pub
Pub. Date
c2001
Physical Desc
322 p. (large print) ; 24 cm.
13) Come and see
Series
Criterion collection volume 1035
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
1 blu-ray (143 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Follows a Belarusian teenage boy who joins the Soviet partisans after the Nazi invasion, and finds horror and destruction in their wake.
14) Come and see
Series
Criterion collection volume 1035
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (143 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Follows a Belarusian teenage boy who joins the Soviet partisans after the Nazi invasion, and finds horror and destruction in their wake.
Author
Publisher
The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
308 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Description
"The director of the famed Bodleian Libraries at Oxford narrates the global history of the willful destruction-and surprising survival-of recorded knowledge over the past three millennia."--Amazon.com.
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
Formats
Description
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
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
xxxv, 364 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Description
"Max Hastings takes us back to the May 1943 raid to reveal how the truth of that night is considerably different from the popularized account most people know. The RAF had identified the Ruhr dams as strategic objectives as far back as 1938; in those five years Wing Commander Guy Gibson formed and trained the 617 Squadron. Hastings observes that while the dropping of Wallis?s mines provided the dramatic climax, only two of the eight aircraft lost...
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