WWII’s Guardians of the Lost Art: The Artist Warriors Who Protected Italy’s Cultural Artifacts
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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 Italy in his new book, Saving Italy: The Race to Rescue a Nation’s Treasures from the Nazis.
