The Venus Fixers: The Remarkable Story of the Allied Monuments Officers Who Saved Italy's Art During World War II Shambhala St John Ambulance

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The Venus Fixers: The Remarkable Story of the Allied Monuments Officers Who Saved Italy's Art During World War II Shambhala St John AmbulanceIn 1943, while the world was convulsed by war, a few visionaries in the private sector and in the military committed to protect Europe's cultural heritage from the indiscriminate ravages of World War II. In the midst of the conflict, the Allied Forces appointed the monuments officers a motley group of art historians, curators, architects, and artists to ensure that the great masterworks of European art and architecture were not looted or bombed into