Previously published in the USA in 2014 by Heliopa Press, LLC, New York. Includes bibliographical references and index.
Summary:
In August 1939, curators at the Louvre nestled the world's most famous painting into a special red velvet-lined case and spirited her away to the Loire Valley as part of the biggest museum evacuation in history. Over the next six years, directors and staff would risk their jobs and in many cases their lives to protect the artworks and the Louvre palace not only from the personal appetites of the Nazi leaders but also from bombing, fire, flood, theft, and the viciousness of German military reprisals. This is the sweeping, suspenseful narrative of their battle.
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