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Monuments Men: The Crafty Artist-Warriors of World War II (PHOTOS) SUBTITLE: A group of scholar-soldiers had one of the most important jobs of the war:

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A group of scholar-soldiers had one of the most important jobs of the war: protect Europe’s greatest art and cultural monuments from the carnage of battle. Robert Edsel tells the story of the Monuments Men at work in his new book, Saving Italy: The Race to Rescue a Nation’s Treasures from the Nazis

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Deane Keller Papers, Manuscripts & Archives, Yale University

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