The second of my trio of books this year related to WWII (All The Light We Cannot See and Exodus), this is also the only non-fiction one. Monuments tells the story of the group of soldiers in WWII who were part of the Monuments, Fine Arts and Archives (MFAA) section. This group was underfunded, unrecognized and very small (at its largest, after the war, it numbered 350 people), yet responsible for saving most of western Europe’s art. The action opens by introducing us to the […]
Slow but informative history
Monuments Men by Robert M. Edsel