The release date for the English version of 'The Monuments Men: Allied Heroes, Nazi Thieves, and the Greatest Treasure Hunt in History' by
Robert M. Edsel is Sep 2009. If you enjoy this novel, it is available for buy as a paperback from Barnes & Noble or Indigo, as an ebook on the Amazon Kindle store, or as an audiobook on Audible.
Adolf Hitler was searching for and accumulating the best artwork in Europe at the same time as he was trying to conquer the west. The art that the Fuehrer intended to destroy—the "degenerate" pieces he detested—as well as the art he intended to acquire had started to be cataloged.
A unique army of American and British museum directors, curators, art historians, and others, known as the Momuments Men, risked their lives searching Europe in a race against time, behind enemy lines, and sometimes unarmed, in order to save the destruction of thousands of years' worth of culture.
This gripping story, which centers on the eleven months that between D-Day and V-E Day, follows six Monuments Men as they attempt an impossible task to prevent the Nazis from destroying the greatest works of art in history.