Monuments Men : Allied heroes, Nazi thieves, and the greatest treasure hunt in history
Robert M. Edsel, Bret Witter

The Monuments Men: Really enjoyed by a couple of people, but everyone else finding it utterly tedious and completely overwhelmed by minutiae, though picking up towards the end – which is a shame as quite a few people (myself included!) had given up by then. The main problem seemed to be that although billed as an exciting race against time from cave to castle etc, it was actually mostly just them turning up after the fact and carrying off what they could; their greatest achievement gained only by the extraordinary coincidence of some bloke they met happening to introduce them to his son who happened to have been working under Hitler’s direct orders in channelling Europe’s art through France and working closely with the only interesting character in the form of Rose Valland, Custodian of the Jeu de Paume and a greater hero than the rest of them put together.

Publication Information

Publisher: Arrow Books
ISBN: 9780099567943