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National Treasures: Saving The Nation’s Art in World War II

by Caroline Shenton

As 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

Publisher

Taylor & Francis Group

Publication date

2022

Format

Print edition

Pages

400

ISBN

9781529387452