How many have to die to save one man?
Each night a small jet leaves Moscow heading for a lonely outpost in the frozen
It is August 1939 & curators at the Louvre have nestled the worlds most famous painting into a special red velvet-lived case to spirit her away to the Loire Valley for the biggest museum evacuation in history.
Throughout the next six years, directors & staff are having to risk their jobs & lives to protect the artworks from the personal appetites of the Nazi leaders.
Through the bombing, fire, flood & thieving occurring & the viciousness of German military reprisals, Saving Mona Lisa is a suspenseful battle.
Gerri Chanels account of how France preserved its art from both the destruction of war & the pillaging of the German occupiers reads like a thriller
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Product Information:
• ISBN: 9781785785498
• Author: Gerri Chanel
• Publisher: Icon Books
• Format: Paperback
• Pages: 377
• Dimensions: 20 x 13 x 3cm