The Rape of Europa
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Published: 2009
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Format: E-book
ISBN-13: 9780307739728
Description: Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award The cast of characters includes  Hitler and Goering, Gertrude Stein and Marc Chagall--not to mention works by artists  from Leonardo da Vinci to Pablo Picasso. And the story told in this superbly researched  and suspenseful book is that of the Third Reich's war on European culture and the  Allies' desperate effort to preserve it. From the Nazi purges of "Degenerate Art"  and Goering's shopping sprees in occupied Paris to the perilous journey of the Mona  Lisa from Paris and the painstaking reclamation of the priceless treasures of liberated  Italy, The Rape of Europa is a sweeping narrative of greed, philistinism, and heroism  that combines superlative scholarship with a compelling drama.  "Nicholas knows  the art world as well as any military historian knows his battlefield.... Her work  deserves the widest reading."--New York Times Book ReviewFrom the Trade Paperback edition.