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The Rape of Europa

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

by Lynn H. Nicholas

Available editions of The Rape of Europa

	9780679756866, Paperback, Vintage Books, 1995 $10.43 (NEW) Other copies of 9780679756866
	9780679400691, Hardcover, Random House Inc, 1994 $30.00 (Very Good) Other copies of 9780679400691

Publisher Notes

Winner of the National Book Critics Circle AwardThe cast of characters includes Hitler and Goering, Gertrude Stein and Marc Chagall--not to mention works by artists from Leonardo da Vinci to Pablo Picasso. And the story told in this superbly researched and suspenseful book is that of the Third Reichs war on European culture and the Allies desperate effort to preserve it.From the Nazi purges of "Degenerate Art" and Goering's shopping sprees in occupied Paris to the perilous journey of the Mona Lisa from Paris and the painstaking reclamation of the priceless treasures of liberated Italy, The Rape of Europa is a sweeping narrative of greed, philistinism, and heroism that combines superlative scholarship with a compelling drama. "Nicholas knows the art world as well as any military historian knows his battlefield.... Her work deserves the widest reading."--New York Times Book Review

Media Reviews

"The meat of [Nicholas's] fascinating book is her account of how a new art establishment emerged in Germany out of the ruins of the Nazi purge of the old establishment in 1933, and how it organized itself to loot rather than destroy the movable art treasures of Germany and those parts of Europe that fell progressively under Nazi control...Ms. Nicholas has given us a different slice through the Hitler years in Europe than is our usual diet. Her work deserves the widest reading among those who call themselves civilized."

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