National treasures : saving the nation's art in World War II
Shenton, Caroline2022
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Place reservation for National treasures : saving the nation's art in World War IIAs Hitler prepared to invade Poland during the sweltering summer of 1939, men and women from across London's museums, galleries and archives formulated ingenious plans to send the nation's highest prized objects to safety. Using stately homes, tube tunnels, slate mines, castles, prisons, stone quarries and even their own homes, a dedicated bunch of unlikely misfits packed up the nation's greatest treasures and, in a race against time, dispatched them throughout the country on a series of top-secret wartime adventures. 'National Treasures' highlights a moment from our history when an unlikely coalition of mild-mannered civil servants, social oddballs and metropolitan aesthetes became the front line in the heritage war against Hitler.
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National treasures : saving the nation's art in World War II / Caroline Shenton.
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Imprint:
London : John Murray, 2022.
Collation:
400 pages : illustrations (black and white) ; 20 cm
Notes:
Originally published: 2021.Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:
9781529387452 (pbk)
Dewey class:
940.5'341940.5341
Language:
English
Subject:
World War, 1939-1945 -- Art and the warArt treasures in war -- Great Britain -- History -- 20th centuryWorld War, 1939-1945 -- Social aspects -- Great BritainCultural property -- Protection -- Great Britain -- History -- 20th centuryWarfare and DefenceHistory of artEuropean historySecond World WarMaterial culture
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3292225
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