Copies of The Art Spy: The Extraordina ry Untold Tale of WWII Resistance Hero Rose Valland \;will be ava ilable for pickup at Long Branch Library.
\nLibby e-book: https://mcplm d.overdrive.com/media/11091111
\nLibby e-audiobook: https://mcplmd. overdrive.com/media/11090957
\nHoopla e-book: < a href="https://www.hoopladigital.com/ebook/the-art-spy-michelle-young/172 47466">https://www.hoopladigital.com/ebook/the-art-spy-michelle-young/1724 7466
\nHoopla e-audiobook: https:// www.hoopladigital.com/audiobook/the-art-spy-michelle-young/17248622
\nSummary:
\nOn August 25\, 1944\, Rose Valland\, a woman of qui et daring\, found herself in a desperate position. From the windows of her beloved Jeu de Paume museum\, where she had worked and ultimately spied\, she could see the battle to liberate Paris thundering around her. The Jeu de Paume\, co-opted by Nazi leadership\, was now the Germans' final line of defense. Would the museum curator be killed before she could tell the t ruth -- a story that would mean nothing less than saving humanity's cultur al inheritance? Based on troves of previously undiscovered documents\, The Art Spy chronicles the brave actions of the key Resistance spy in the hea rt of the Nazi's art looting headquarters in the French capital. A veritab le female Monuments Man\, Valland has\, until now\, been written out of th e annals\, despite bearing witness to history's largest art theft. While H itler was amassing stolen art for his future Fü\;hrermuseum\, Valland\ , his undercover adversary\, secretly worked to stop him. At every stage o f World War II\, Valland was front and center. She came face to face with Reichsmarschall Hermann Gö\;ring\, passed crucial information to the R esistance network\, put herself deliberately in harm's way to protect the museum and her staff\, and faced death during the last hours of Liberation Day. At the same time\, a young Free French soldier\, Alexandre Rosenberg \, was fighting his way to Paris with the Allied forces battling to libera te France. Alexandre's father was the exclusive art dealer for Picasso\, M atisse\, George Braque\, and Fernand Lé\;ger. The Nazis had taken ev erything from their family -- their art collection\, their nationality\, t heir gallery\, and their home in Paris. Vivid and atmospheric\, The Art Sp y moves from the glittering days of pre-War Paris\, home to geniuses of mo dern culture\, including Picasso\, Josephine Baker\, Coco Chanel\, Le Corb usier\, and Frida Kahlo\, through the tension-riddled cities and resorts o f Europe on the eve of war\, to the harrowing years of the Nazi occupation of France when brave people such as Valland and Rosenberg risked everythi ng to fight monstrous evil--Provided by publisher.
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