National Treasures: Saving The Nation's Art in World War II
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- Synopsis
- The gigantic covert wartime mission led by the men and women of London's museums and galleries to save the nation's priceless heritage.As Hitler prepared to invade Poland during the sweltering summer of 1939, men and women from across London's museums, galleries and archives formulated ingenious plans to send the nation's highest prized objects to safety. Using stately homes, tube tunnels, slate mines, castles, prisons, stone quarries and even their own homes, a dedicated bunch of unlikely misfits packed up the nation's greatest treasures and, in a race against time, dispatched them throughout the country on a series of top-secret wartime adventures. National Treasures highlights a moment from our history when an unlikely coalition of mild-mannered civil servants, social oddballs and metropolitan aesthetes became the front line in the heritage war against Hitler. Caroline Shenton shares the interwoven lives of ordinary people who kept calm and carried on in the most extraordinary of circumstances in their efforts to save the Nation's historic identity.(P) 2021 Hodder & Stoughton Limited
- Copyright:
- 2021
Book Details
- Book Quality:
- Publisher Quality
- ISBN-13:
- 9781529387445
- Related ISBNs:
- 9781529387438
- Publisher:
- John Murray Press
- Date of Addition:
- 05/05/22
- Copyrighted By:
- Caroline Shenton
- Adult content:
- No
- Language:
- English
- Has Image Descriptions:
- No
- Narrated By:
- Esther Wane
- Categories:
- History, Military, Nonfiction, Art and Architecture
- Submitted By:
- Bookshare Staff
- Usage Restrictions:
- This is a copyrighted book.
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