false http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1188020346m/1770498.jpg 227540 6 Every few months you'll read a newspaper story of the discovery of some long-lost art treasure hidden away in a German basement or a Russian attic: a Cranach, a Holbein, even, not long ago, a da Vinci. Such treasures ended up far from the museums and churches in which they once hung, taken as war loot by Allied and Axis soldiers alike. Thousands of important pieces have never been recovered. Lynn Nicholas offers an astonishingly good account of the wholesale ravaging of European art during World War II, of how teams of international experts have worked to recover lost masterpieces in the war's aftermath and of how governments "are still negotiating the restitution of objects held by their respective nations." 1768647 1994 The Rape of Europa: The Fate of Europe's Treasures in the Third Reich and the Second World War total:155|5:51|4:71|3:24|2:7|1:2| 155 627 380 50 227540 0679756868 9780679756866 149 49 4.05 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172877747m/227540.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/227540.The_Rape_of_Europa_The_Fate_of_Europe_s_Treasures_in_the_Third_Reich_and_the_Second_World_War 5 11 false Thu Dec 18 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Tue Oct 28 14:02:56 -0700 2008 Thu Dec 18 18:22:05 -0800 2008
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