The Monuments Men: Allied Heroes, Nazi Thieves, and the Greatest Treasure Hunt in History
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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 plotted to collect as well as the art he would ruin: “degenerate” works he despised.
In a race against time, behind enemy lines, regularly exposed, a special force of American and British museum directors, curators, art historians, and others, called the Monuments 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 fantastic art from the Nazis.
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Could have been a fantastically appealing book, but, it bogs down with reference material…you want to say “cut to the chase already”. It lacks mystery and drama.
Reader’s Rating: 2 / 5
A tale with a magnificent and inspiring theme but told in a writing style that is but average. While I do appreciate the work of Robert M. Edsel in bringing merited attention to these heroes of civilization, his book is unlikely to win any literary prizes.
And while the leader informs readers in the preface that he has made dialogue, I do not like this practice in what aspires to be a serious history.
For readers who might be especially interested in Lincoln Kirstein, one of the featured Monuments Men, I highly recommend the biography “The World of Lincoln Kirstein” by Martin Duberman (2007).
Reader’s Rating: 3 / 5
I will give Robert Edsel credit for trying to tell a very complex tale and one that for the most part is filled with very small drama or that most people can tell to. Still in “The Monuments Men” he tells a basically excellent tale, but the material he uses is too thin to be much more than basic and does not make a truly compelling picture. He tells us all about the heroic men who tried so save Europe’s art and restore it to its proper home as well as the crudity of the Nazi Germany’s lust for art. But he doesn’t make his tale compelling enough to judge these people were doing an essential service.
I am by no means questioning what these fine men did which I have known of and consider exceptional. But Edsel seems very blase about the whole business and we are just supposed to see for ourselves how fantastic these men are. This is a fantastic tale but it requires the visual medium which is not here.
Reader’s Rating: 3 / 5
My work requires much travel. A excellent history book makes my travel is bit more honest. The book “The Monuments Men” is my most recent travel companion. What a disappointment.
From the beginning, “Monuments Men” is dry, tedious and disjointed. After reading page 37, my copy of the book is clogged for excellent. Here the authors aver Winston Churchill insisted on an immediate Allied cross-channel invasion of France in 1943 while Roosevelt, Eisenhower and Marshall argued the Allies were not ready. Since Edsel and Witter got this so incorrect, in point-of-fact backwards, the historicity and accuracy of everything else written is in doubt. (On this topic, my recommendation the wonderful book “Masters and Commanders: How Churchill, Roosevelt, Alan Brooke and Marshall Won the War in the West – 1941-45″, by Andrew Roberts).
“The Monuments Men” is reasonably an expensive book. Save yourself the money and go elsewhere.
Reader’s Rating: 1 / 5
This very point, researched and well annotated book is fantastic fun for persons of us who want both the human tales of the war effort as well as points of to entry for casual examination. Over the course of the book I made a hand full of notes about people, works of art and places that I have really loved looking up. I reflect book hit a sweet spot between the boots on the ground tale of these men and women and a larger view of how the cultural treasures of Europe throughout the war.
Reader’s Rating: 4 / 5