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National treasures : saving the nation's art in World War II
- Title
- National treasures : saving the nation's art in World War II / Caroline Shenton.
- Author
- Shenton, Caroline
- Publication
- London : John Murray Publishers Ltd., 2021.
- ©2021
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- Description
- xv, 319 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (black and white); 23 cm
- Summary
- 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 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. 0National 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. Caroline Shenton shares the interwoven lives of ordinary people who kept calm and carried on in the most extraordinary of circumstances in their efforts to save the Nation's historic identity.
- Subject
- 1900-1999
- World War, 1939-1945 > Art and the war
- Art treasures in war > Great Britain > History > 20th century
- World War, 1939-1945 > Social aspects > Great Britain
- Cultural property > Protection > History > Great Britain > 20th century
- Art treasures in war
- Cultural property > Protection
- Social aspects
- Great Britain
- Genre/Form
- Art.
- History.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Call Number
- JFD 22-1207
- ISBN
- 1529387434
- 9781529387438
- OCLC
- 1261050753
- Author
- Shenton, Caroline, author.
- Title
- National treasures : saving the nation's art in World War II / Caroline Shenton.
- Publisher
- London : John Murray Publishers Ltd., 2021.
- Copyright Date
- ©2021
- Type of Content
- textstill image
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Chronological Term
- 1900-1999
- Other Form:
- ebook version : 9781529387469
- Research Call Number
- JFD 22-1207