Saving Italy

Name: Saving Italy
Brand: Recorded Books
Availability: InStock
Rating: 4 (1 reviews)
Author: Robert M. Edsel
ISBN: 9781470366780

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

Synopsis

Robert M. Edsel's contributions as a WWII historian have brought wide attention and a National Humanities Medal to his Monuments Men Foundation. In Saving Italy, Edsel recounts how, in May 1944, General Eisenhower sent two men--artist Deane Keller and scholar Fred Hartt--on a desperate hunt to locate priceless works of art fallen into Nazi hands. Keller and Hartt would find aid from an unlikely source--top-level Nazi officer General Karl Wolff.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Michael

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

Goodreads review by Washington

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