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Robert Edsel:
Saving Italy

In August 1943, on the eve of the Allied invasion of Italy, Allied bombs threatened Michelangelo's David and nearly destroyed Leonardo da Vinci's Last Supper. This is the blockbuster story of the race to save the world's greatest masterpieces by the best-selling author of The Monuments Men.

Mr. Edsel's new book, Saving Italy: The Race to Rescue a Nation's Treasures from the Nazis, published by W.W. Norton, follows Monuments officers Deane Keller, a portrait painter and art professor, and Fred Hartt, a brilliant art scholar, serving alongside frontline troops, as they race to discover the location of billions of dollars of missing artwork taken from the great museums in Florence and Naples. With the whereabouts of the art unknown to the Allies, a heretofore obscure SS General holds the works hostage while negotiating a secret Nazi surrender with American spies. This gripping narrative will appeal to anyone who loves history, art, travel and adventure.

Robert M. Edsel is the author of the non-fiction books, Rescuing Da Vinci and The Monuments Men: Allied Heroes, Nazi Thieves and the Greatest Treasure Hunt in History. Mr. Edsel is also the co-producer of the award-winning documentary film, The Rape of Europa. In addition, he is the Founder and President of the Monuments Men Foundation for the Preservation of Art, a not-for-profit entity which received the National Humanities Medal, the highest honor given in the United States for work in the Humanities.