Check nearby libraries
Buy this book
![Loading indicator](/images/ajax-loader-bar.gif)
When Hitler's armies occupied Italy in 1943, they also seized control of mankind's greatest cultural treasures. As they had done throughout Europe, the Nazis could now plunder the masterpieces of the Renaissance, the treasures of the Vatican, and the antiquities of the Roman Empire. On the eve of the Allied invasion, General Dwight Eisenhower empowered a new kind of soldier to protect these historic riches. In May 1944 two unlikely American heroes -- artist Deane Keller and scholar Fred Hartt -- embarked from Naples on the treasure hunt of a lifetime, tracking billions of dollars of missing art, including works by Michelangelo, Donatello, Titian, Caravaggio, and Botticelli. With the German army retreating up the Italian peninsula, orders came from the highest levels of the Nazi government to transport truckloads of art north across the border into the Reich. Standing in the way was General Karl Wolff, a top-level Nazi officer. As German forces blew up the magnificent bridges of Florence, General Wolff commandeered the great collections of the Uffizi Gallery and Pitti Palace, later risking his life to negotiate a secret Nazi surrender with American spymaster Allen Dulles. Brilliantly researched and vividly written, Saving Italy brings readers from Milan and the near destruction of The Last Supper to the inner sanctum of the Vatican and behind closed doors with the preeminent Allied and Axis leaders: Roosevelt, Eisenhower, and Churchill; Hitler, Göring, and Himmler. An unforgettable story of epic thievery and political intrigue, Saving Italy is a testament to heroism on behalf of art, culture, and history. - Publisher.
Check nearby libraries
Buy this book
![Loading indicator](/images/ajax-loader-bar.gif)
Previews available in: English
Subjects
Allied Forces. Supreme Headquarters. Monuments, Fine Arts and Archives Section, Allied Forces, Protection, Cultural property, World War, 1939-1945, Art treasures in war, Art thefts, Art and the war, History, Weltkrieg, Alliierte, Kriegsbeute, World War (1939-1945) fast (OCoLC)fst01180924, Kulturguterschutz, World war, 1939-1945, art and the war, Cultural property, protection, Italy, history, nyt:hardcover-nonfiction=2013-05-26, New York Times bestsellerShowing 3 featured editions. View all 3 editions?
Edition | Availability |
---|---|
1
Saving Italy: The Race to Rescue a Nation's Treasures from the Nazis
2014, Norton & Company, Incorporated, W. W.
in English
0393348806 9780393348804
|
zzzz
Libraries near you:
WorldCat
|
2
Saving Italy: the race to rescue a nation's treasures from the Nazis
2013, W.W. Norton & Co., W.W. Norton & Company
Hardcover
in English
0393082415 9780393082418
|
aaaa
Libraries near you:
WorldCat
|
3
Saving Italy: The Race to Rescue a Nation's Treasures from the Nazis
2013, Norton & Company, Incorporated, W. W.
in English
0393240452 9780393240450
|
zzzz
Libraries near you:
WorldCat
|
Book Details
Table of Contents
Edition Notes
Classifications
The Physical Object
ID Numbers
Community Reviews (0)
Feedback?History
- Created January 20, 2014
- 11 revisions
Wikipedia citation
×CloseCopy and paste this code into your Wikipedia page. Need help?
December 19, 2023 | Edited by ImportBot | import existing book |
March 7, 2023 | Edited by MARC Bot | import existing book |
December 21, 2022 | Edited by MARC Bot | import existing book |
October 17, 2022 | Edited by ImportBot | import existing book |
January 20, 2014 | Created by Bryan Tyson | Added new book. |