The Rape of Europa: The Fate of Europe's Treasures in the Third Reich and the Second World War

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. From the Nazi purges of 'degenerat…

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