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<p class="null1">Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award</p> <p>The cast of characters includes Hitler and Goering, Gertrude Stein and Marc Chagall—not to mention works by artists from Leonardo da Vinci to Pablo Picasso. And the story told in this superbly researched and suspenseful book is that of the Third Reich's war on European culture and the Allies' desperate effort to preserve it.</p> <p>From the Nazi purges of "Degenerate Art" and Goering's shopping sprees in occupied Paris to the perilous journey of the <i>Mona Lisa</i> from Paris and the painstaking reclamation of the priceless treasures of liberated Italy, <b>The Rape of Europa</b> is a sweeping narrative of greed, philistinism, and heroism that combines superlative scholarship with a compelling drama.</p> <p>The fabulous objects recovered since the end of World War II are only a fraction of the immense treasures that were sold, confiscated, stolen, destroyed, hidden, and buried as Europe was overrun by the Nazis. Now Nicholas reconstructs the pillage and details the campaigns to restore the treasures. Illustrations and maps. </p>

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Author

Lynn H Nicholas; OverDrive, Inc

Publisher

Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group

Published

1995

Language

EN

ISBN

9780333639511

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Business, History, Art

Rating

3.9 / 5 (5,946 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14