The Monuments Men - Introduction

[Zeljka]

At the same time Adolf Hitler was attempting to take over the western world, his armies were methodically seeking and hoarding the finest art treasures in Europe. The Fuehrer had begun cataloguing the art he planned to collect as well as the art he would destroy: "degenerate" works he despised.
In a race against time, behind enemy lines, often unarmed, a special force of American and British museum directors, curators, art historians, and others, called the Momuments Men, risked their lives scouring Europe to prevent the destruction of thousands of years of culture.
Focusing on the eleven-month period between D-Day and V-E Day, this fascinating account follows six Monuments Men and their impossible mission to save the world's great art from the Nazis.

This book is slightly more voluminous than the ones we had recently, so let's split the reading in three parts:

Monuments Men 01 - Part One and Two (Week One-Two)
Monuments Men 02 - Part Three and Four (Week Three-Four)
Monuments Men 03 - Part Five, The Conclusion and The Movie (Week Five)

Hopefully it'll be possible to read it in a month - if not, don't worry, our reading sections are always open, and we can always add new posts to them whenever we want :)

As for me, I am still waiting for my dead-tree copy to show up in my mailbox. So I definitely won't manage to read it in a month. Not only for that reason, but for the others as well... A long story.