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At the same time Adolf Hitler was attempting to dominate the lady, his armies were methodically seeking and hoarding the best possible art treasures in Europe. The Fuehrer had begun cataloguing the art he designed to gather as well as the art he would destroy: "degenerate" works he despised.
In a contest against time, behind opponent lines, often unarmed, a special force of American and British museum directors, curators, art historians, while others, called the Monuments Men, risked their lives scouring Europe to prevent the damage of a large number of many years of culture.
Concentrating on the eleven-month period between D-Day and V-E Day, this attractive account employs six Monuments Men and their impossible quest to save the world's great art from the Nazis.
