Book Description
This book dives into the fascinating history of one of the greatest treasure hunts of all time!
Author : Brinkley Howard
Publisher : BookCaps Study Guides
Page : 28 pages
File Size : 28,48 MB
Release : 2016-05-18
Category : History
ISBN : 1621075516
This book dives into the fascinating history of one of the greatest treasure hunts of all time!
Author : Allied Forces. Supreme Headquarters
Publisher :
Page : pages
File Size : 19,41 MB
Release : 194?
Category : Bombing, Aerial
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Author : American Commission for the Protection and Salvage of Artistic and Historic Monuments in War Areas
Publisher :
Page : 266 pages
File Size : 36,47 MB
Release : 1946
Category : Art treasures in war
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Author : Save Time Summaries Staff
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 50,24 MB
Release : 2014-02-11
Category :
ISBN : 9781495492990
WARNING: This is not the actual book The Monuments Men by Robert M. Edsel. Do not buy this Summary, Review & Analysis if you are looking for a full copy of this great book. As you read The Monuments Men, this summary, review and analysis provides an expert overview to enlighten you on the rescue of millions of dollars worth of art pieces and relics. In chapter breakdowns, discover how masterpieces were stolen, stashed, and placed in danger. Follow a race-against-the-clock treasure hunt worthy of any spy movie (in fact, George Clooney has turned the book into a film). Designed to enrich your reading, this guide features key points to take away, while highlighting numerous anecdotes from the book. Burned Boticellis, Trojan relics hidden in an anti-aircraft tower, a French female secret agent, and a painful wisdom tooth that led to a fateful encounter; these are just some of the stories you will read about in The Monuments Men.The Monuments Men: Allied Heroes, Nazi Thieves and the Greatest Treasure Hunt in HistoryWhat price would you pay to preserve a cultural legacy? Would it be worth endangering your life? Author Robert M. Edsel tells the fascinating true story of those who took this risk in The Monuments Men: Allied Heroes, Nazi Thieves and the Greatest Treasure Hunt in History. This summary is an ideal guide to take you through the journeys of 18 men who joined the Army's little-known MFAA unit, which protected precious European art from destruction during World War II. The author discusses these untraditional soldiers; they were older family men who left their jobs as professors, curators, sculptors, and architects to preserve not only democracy, but also art and history for future generations.The contributions of this group of cultural patriots would go unrecognized for 60 years. Yet, the successful mission of the Monuments, Fine Arts, and Archives unit would have a lasting impact on the heritage of the Western world. Read about how this unit was created. Then, discover the challenges and tragedies these men faced in the final days of Hitler's scorched earth policy.
Author : Harry Lewis Coles
Publisher :
Page : 960 pages
File Size : 15,98 MB
Release : 1964
Category : Government publications
ISBN :
A documentary history with brief narrative introductions illustrating the evolution of civil affairs policy and practice in the Mediterranean and European theaters.
Author : Walter I. Farmer
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 11,69 MB
Release : 2015-06-03
Category : History
ISBN : 3110893509
Item discusses life at the Wiesbaden Collecting Point in Germany, where cultural property and art works were collected and held at the end World War II. In November 1945 the Director of the Collection Point (the author) received a telegram ordering him to send 200 premier German-owned art works to Washington. He and his officers resisted this command with a written protest that became known as the Wiesbaden Manifesto.
Author : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Armed Services
Publisher :
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 12,61 MB
Release : 1947
Category : Horses
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Author : Nigel Pollard
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
Page : 341 pages
File Size : 23,70 MB
Release : 2020-11-18
Category : History
ISBN : 0472127292
Bombing Pompeii examines the circumstances under which over 160 Allied bombs hit the archaeological site of Pompeii in August and September 1943, and the wider significance of this event in the history of efforts to protect cultural heritage in conflict zones, a broader issue that is still of great importance. From detailed examinations of contemporary archival document, Nigel Pollard shows that the bomb damage to ancient Pompeii was accidental, and the bombs were aimed at road and rail routes close to the site in an urgent attempt to slow down the reinforcement and supply of German counter- attacks that threatened to defeat the Allied landings in the Gulf of Salerno. The book sets this event, along with other instances of damage and risk to cultural heritage in Italy in the Second World War, in the context of the development of the Allied Monuments, Fine Arts, and Archives – the “Monuments Men.”
Author : Cynthia Culver Prescott
Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
Page : 543 pages
File Size : 25,72 MB
Release : 2019-04-04
Category : Art
ISBN : 0806163887
For more than a century, American communities erected monuments to western pioneers. Although many of these statues receive little attention today, the images they depict—sturdy white men, saintly mothers, and wholesome pioneer families—enshrine prevailing notions of American exceptionalism, race relations, and gender identity. Pioneer Mother Monuments is the first book to delve into the long and complex history of remembering, forgetting, and rediscovering pioneer monuments. In this book, historian Cynthia Culver Prescott combines visual analysis with a close reading of primary-source documents. Examining some two hundred monuments erected in the United States from the late nineteenth century to the present, Prescott begins her survey by focusing on the earliest pioneer statues, which celebrated the strong white men who settled—and conquered—the West. By the 1930s, she explains, when gender roles began shifting, new monuments came forth to honor the Pioneer Mother. The angelic woman in a sunbonnet, armed with a rifle or a Bible as she carried civilization forward—an iconic figure—resonated particularly with Mormon audiences. While interest in these traditional monuments began to wane in the postwar period, according to Prescott, a new wave of pioneer monuments emerged in smaller communities during the late twentieth century. Inspired by rural nostalgia, these statues helped promote heritage tourism. In recent years, Americans have engaged in heated debates about Confederate Civil War monuments and their implicit racism. Should these statues be removed or reinterpreted? Far less attention, however, has been paid to pioneer monuments, which, Prescott argues, also enshrine white cultural superiority—as well as gender stereotypes. Only a few western communities have reexamined these values and erected statues with more inclusive imagery. Blending western history, visual culture, and memory studies, Prescott’s pathbreaking analysis is enhanced by a rich selection of color and black-and-white photographs depicting the statues along with detailed maps that chronologically chart the emergence of pioneer monuments.
Author : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Armed Services
Publisher :
Page : 358 pages
File Size : 46,63 MB
Release : 1947
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