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Victor, the son of wealthy Jewish art dealers, and Rudi, the son of their servant, are best friends despite their class differences and the fact they love the same girl, Lena. But World War II upends everything, turning Rudi into a Nazi and Victor into a helpless pawn. Then a priceless drawing by Michelangelo becomes crucial to Nazi plans, and only Victor's family knows where it is. The game of cat and mouse results in plane crashes, stolen identities,...
43) Restoration
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Returning home to La Foce, a crumbling villa in Tuscany, to make amends with her husband, Iris is caught between loyalists and resistors, cruel German forces and Allied troops, and, while struggling to survive, hopes that the life and love she lost can one day be restored.
45) Light
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In Kalastia, books are burning. The new government, led by power-hungry General Malin, is determined to rewrite history. To renowned artist Arda Kalev, the situation seems hopeless. When orders are given to destroy all the art in the National Gallery, including Arda's precious statue Light, Arda must decide if freedom is worth fighting-and dying-for--Cover.
47) The last Vermeer
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A captivating dramatic thriller set just after WWII, an all but forgotten true story about a soldier, Joseph Piller, investigating renowned Dutch artist Han van Meegeren who is accused of conspiring with the Nazis. Despite increasing evidence, Piller becomes more and more convinced of Han's innocence and finds himself in the improbable position of fighting to save the life of the colorful man with a mysterious past.
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Had Stefan Zurowski made a deal with the devil? But it's his chance to return and restore the German devastation to his family estate, using the Jeweled Crucifix as leverage. He and members of his American household overcome dangers on sea and land to reach Domani z Camin, his family's Polish Estate. The travelers experience fear, discomfort, and romance before Stefan's objective is achieved and they can return to America. To Stefan's dismay Sophia...
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A classic now back in print and enriched with new imagery, James J. Rorimer's riveting first-hand account takes readers on a treasure hunt as he follows the Allied troops across France and Germany to save Nazi-stolen masterpieces of art. James J. Rorimer, former director of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, became a leading figure in the art recovery unit known as the Monuments Men, an elite group imbedded in the US Army, who risked their lives during...
53) Getting taken
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Getting even volume 3
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"While freelance writer Robyn Guthrie settles into her new home, which came with a few surprises, she learns her mother Lizzie, drama queen of Dryden Manor Assisted Living, has one of her own--a new boyfriend, Lionel. When he dies suddenly, leaving a pulp fiction novel in Lizzie's care, Robyn and Lizzie soon realize he was not all he appeared to be. Lionel's mysterious past is buried in the book along with a last, desperate clue that may lead to the...
57) Stealing Klimt
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This is the unusual story of a beautiful elegant woman Maria Altmann, and her incredible courage and tenacity to reclaim 5 Klimt paintings from the Austrian government, which were stolen by the Nazis from her family. A David and Goliath tale that takes her from the glittering world of fin-de-siecle Vienna through Nazi terror in Europe to the United States Supreme Court. And after 60 years of state deception she won! Austria finally returned the paintings...
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In this powerful memoir, Tasoula Hadjitofi reveals her perilous journey orchestrating 'The Munich Case' one of the largest European art trafficking stings since WWII. With the Bavarian police in place, the Cypriots on their way, seventy under-cover agents bust into the Munich apartment of a notorious Turkish smuggler suspected of holding looted antiquities. Tasoula places everything on the line to repatriate her country's sacred treasures, unaware...
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"The story of art is integral to the story of the rise of Nazi Germany. Adolf Hitler, an artist himself, was obsessed with art--in particular, the aesthetic of a purified regime, scoured of 'degenerate' influences that characterized Germany during the 1920s and 1930s. When they came to power in 1933, Hitler and Goebbels set their aesthetic vision into motion and removed degenerate art from German life: artists fled the country; museums were purged;...
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