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Audiobooks. bibliography biography Documentary Documentary films. history index videorecordingEdsel, Robert M.
Summary: "As the most destructive war in history ravaged Europe, many of the world's most cherished cultural objects were in harm's way. The Greatest Treasure Hunt in History recounts the astonishing true story of eleven men and one woman who risked their lives amidst the bloodshed of World War II to preserve churches, libraries, monuments, and works of art that for centuries defined the heritage of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Focus, an imprint of Scholastic Inc. 2019
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 940.53 EDSNguyen, Viet Thanh
Summary: "All wars are fought twice, the first time on the battlefield, the second time in memory. Exploring how this troubled memory works in Vietnam, the United States, Laos, Cambodia, and South Korea, the book deals specifically with the Vietnam War and also war in general. He reveals how war is a part of our identity, as individuals and as citizens of nations armed to the teeth. Venturing through...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harvard University Press 2016
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 959.7 NGUKimball, Jane A.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Silverpenny Press 2004
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1 available in Oversize, Call number: OVS 940.3 KIMDeacon, Deborah A.
Summary: "Like many of their male peers, women artists have used their chosen mediums to explore and express their reactions to the violence of war, which they frequently experienced firsthand. The 345 named artists discussed in this book come from diverse backgrounds across hundreds of years. The book divides the 652 covered works of art into five general categories: those that provide support for the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers 2024
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Place a hold to request this item.Edsel, Robert M.
Summary: "The previously untold story of a little-known WWII Allied division whose mission was to track down European art and treasures that had been looted by the Nazis at Hitler's command"--Provided by the publisher.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Street 2009
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 940.531 EDSCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 940.531 EDSCopies Available at Fife Lake
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Hist Wars EdselKirkpatrick, Sidney.
Summary: Tells the riveting true story of how an American college professor turned Army sleuth recovered cherished symbols of Hitler's Thousand-Year Reich before they could become a rallying point in the creation of a Fourth and equally unholy Reich.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2010
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 940.531 KIREdsel, Robert M.
Summary: Describes two Americans in Italy--one an artist, the other a scholar--who tracked down and protected historic artwork worth billions by Michelangelo, Donatello, Titian, Caravaggio, and Botticelli in advance of the approaching Nazi army in 1943.
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Publisher / Publication Date: W. W. Norton & Company 2013
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 940.5345 EDSEdsel, Robert M.
Summary: Edsel provides an astonishing account of a little known American effort to save Italy's vast store of priceless monuments and art during World War II. While American warriors were fighting the length of the country, other Americans were courageously working alongside to preserve the irreplaceable best of Italy's culture.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2013
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 940.53 EDSSummary: Imagine the world without our masterpieces. Interviews with eyewitnesses and historians and newsreel footage show how heroic Europeans, Russians, and Americans worked to save the art of Europe during World War II.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Menemsha Films 2008
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD 943.086 RAPCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC RAPEdsel, Robert M.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Laurel Pub. 2006
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1 available in Oversize, Call number: OVS 709.043 EDSJackson, Jeffrey H.
Summary: "The true story of an audacious resistance campaign undertaken by an unlikely pair: two French women -- Lucy Schwob and Suzanne Malherbe -- who drew on their skills as Parisian avant-garde artists to write and distribute wicked insults against Hitler andcalls to desert, a PSYOPs tactic known as "paper bullets," designed to demoralize Nazi troops occupying their adopted home of Jersey in the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 940.53 JACCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 940.53 JACYockey, Ross.
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Publisher / Publication Date: John F. Blair 2000
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 759.13 YOCBeyer, Rick
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Publisher / Publication Date: Plate of Peas Productions 2011
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1 available in Oversize, Call number: 940.5421 BEYDolnick, Edward
Summary: As riveting as a World War II thriller, The Forger's Spell is the true story of Johannes Vermeer and the small-time Dutch painter, Han van Meegeren, who dared to impersonate Vermeer centuries later. The con man's mark was Hermann Goering, one of the most reviled leaders of Nazi Germany and a fanatic collector of art.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper 2008
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 759.94 DOLBarton, Chris
Summary: "When the British Royal Navy grew desperate to protect their ship from German U-Boat attacks, they created Dazzle ships in order to confuse the enemy of their location and destination."--Provided by publisher.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Millbrook Press 2017
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 940.4 BARMcPherson, James M.
Summary: This book seeks to tell the story of the war, its causes, and its significance, in a narrative format that conveys the political and social as well as the military dimensions of the conflict.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Gramercy Books 1992
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1 available in Oversize, Call number: OVS 973.7 McPSneden, Robert Knox
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Publisher / Publication Date: Free Press 2001
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1 available in Oversize, Call number: OVS 973.7 SNECrompton, Samuel Willard
Summary: "War had a profound effect on Horace Pippin. Stationed in Europe during World War I, Pippin saw active combat as part of the Harlem Hellfighters regiment, a group of mostly African American soldiers. While he was serving bravely for a country that didn't yet fully recognize his civil rights, his right arm was injured by sniper fire--but he harbored far deeper wounds inflicted by the horrors of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2018
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1 available in JT Non-Fiction, Call number: JT Blk Hist Art Etinde-CromptonKatz, Harry L.
Summary: In an era before photography could capture the excitement and drama of battle, illustrators known as "Special Artists"- among them such celebrated draftsmen as Winslow Homer and Thomas Nast- created some of the most important, influential and enduring images of the Civil War. Reporting to newspapers like 'Harper's Weekly' and 'Frank Leslie's Illustrated News,' the Specials were prototypes for...
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Publisher / Publication Date: W.W. Norton & Co. 2012
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1 available in Oversize, Call number: OVS 973.7 KATFranck, Dan.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Grove Press 2001
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Place a hold to request this item.Simpson, Marc.
Contents: A chronology of Homer's early career, 1859-1866 / Sally Mills -- Marks of honor and death : sharpshooter and the Peninsular Campaign of 1862 / Christopher Kent Wilson -- The bright side : "humorously conceived and truthfully executed" / Marc Simpson -- Prisoners from the front : an American history painting? / Lucretia H. Giese -- A harvest of death : the veteran in a new field / Nicolai...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco 1988