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Monuments Men, The by Robert M Edsel Soft Cover
Monuments Men, The by Robert M Edsel
Softbound 473 Pages
Copyright 2010, First trade edition
Allied heroes, Nazi thieves and the greatest treasure hunt in history.
The Monuments Men
In caves, in mines, and in isolated mountain hide-outs we found that Hitler and his gang...had stored art treasures filched from their rightful owners throughout conquered Europe. I am grateful to the directors of the Metropolitan Museum for their generosity in having accorded me an honorary membership for my small part in protecting these monuments. The credit belongs to the officers and men of the combat echelons whose veneration for priceless treasures persisted, even in the heat and fears of battle."
-General Dwight D. Eisenhower,
Supreme Allied Commander. Acceptance remarks
at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, April 1946
PRAISE FOR MONUMENTS MEN
"In the great storytelling tradition of my longtime friend, Stephen Ambrose, Edsel's book is a thriller, in the style of Indiana Jones, but in this case it's all fact and great history. I read the book from cover to cover - couldn't put it down!"
-Dr. Gordon "Nick" Mueller, CEO/President and co-founder of the National World War II Museum
"The contribution of the Monuments Men in saving many of the world's greatest cultural treasures looted by Adolf Hitler and the Nazis during the war stagger the imagination. This is one of the great stories in history and should be known by every American."
-Dr. Bruce Cole, former Chairman of the National Endowment for the Humanities, and President and CEO of The American Revolutionary Center
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