

Saving Italy
Author: Robert M. Edsel
Narrator: Edoardo Ballerini
Unabridged: 11 hr 47 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: Recorded Books
Published: 05/06/2013
Categories: Nonfiction, History, Wars, World War Ii
Author: Robert M. Edsel
Narrator: Edoardo Ballerini
Unabridged: 11 hr 47 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: Recorded Books
Published: 05/06/2013
Categories: Nonfiction, History, Wars, World War Ii
Having recently read The Monuments Men, and having seen the movie based on the book, I had to read Edsel's account of the work done by those involved with the Monuments, Fine Arts, and Archives Section in the Italian theater. In as much as I'm more familiar with the "terrain" of Italy, particularly......more
In 1914, shortly after Germany invaded neutral Belgium, the German authorities exacted revenge for the shooting of several of their soldiers on patrol in Louvain. They executed more than 200 civilians, then methodically set fire to homes and to the University of Louvain’s library. About 250,000 book......more