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Robert Edsel is the author of Rescuing Da Vinci, a photographic essay book providing the first comprehensive visual documentation of Hitler and the Nazis' theft of Europe's great art and its rescue by America and her Allies. He is also co-producer of a documentary film entitled The Rape of Europa. Edsel began his business career as an independent oil and gas producer in 1981. Robert moved to Italy with his family in 1996.
Engaging and inspiring * Publishers Weekly * Highly Readable . . . a remarkable history * Washington Post * In the great storytelling tradition of my longtime friend, Stephen Ambrose, Monuments Men is a marvelous addition to the many great books on World War II and is a reminder that we fought to save western civilization as well as our freedom. Robert Edsel's brilliant work tells the story of how a small unit of American soldiers raced across the front lines in Europe to rescue the art treasures of western culture that had been stolen by the Nazis. Edsel's book is a thriller, in the style of Indiana Jones, but in this case it's all fact and great history. I read the book from cover to cover - couldn't put it down! * Dr. Gordon 'Nick' Mueller, CEO/President and co-founder of the National World War II Museum * After World War Two I served as a British member of the 'Monuments' section in Germany. Our task, I believe, was truly important - we were restoring to Europe evidence of its own civilization, which the War seemed virtually to have destroyed - and I was lucky to have had a chance to participate. It is excellent that Mr Edsel has now recorded this remarkable episode, and I am grateful to him for devoting so much energy to telling the stories of those involved -- Anne Olivier Bell
