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Allied Forces. Supreme Headquarters. Monuments, Fine Arts and Archives Section History Archaeological thefts Iraq Art treasures in war Europe History 20th century Cultural property Protection Cultural property Protection Europe History 20th century Destruction and pillage Iraq Antiquities Matḥaf al-ʻIrāqī. World War, 1939-1945 Art and the war World War, 1939-1945 Destruction and pillage EuropeEnglish, Charlie
Summary: The story of how a team of librarians and archivists joined forces to spirit tens of thousands of ancient manuscripts into hiding when al-Qaeda-linked jihadists surged across Mali in 2012, threatening the existence of these precious documents. Relying on extensive research and firsthand reporting, Charlie English expertly twines a fraught and fascinating account of one of the planet's...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Riverhead Books 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 966.2 ENGAly, Götz
Summary: "Götz Aly pens a forgotten chapter in the history of empire through the chronicle a single object: a majestic fifteen-meter boat, looted from Papua New Guinea during a German colonial expedition and since displayed in Berlin museums. While arguing for the vessel's repatriation, Aly restores attention to the conquest of the Bismarck Archipelago"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 995.3 ALYEdsel, Robert M.
Summary: "As the most destructive war in history ravaged Europe, many of the world's most cherished cultural objects were in harm's way. The Greatest Treasure Hunt in History recounts the astonishing true story of eleven men and one woman who risked their lives amidst the bloodshed of World War II to preserve churches, libraries, monuments, and works of art that for centuries defined the heritage of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Focus, an imprint of Scholastic Inc. 2019
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Summary: Describes how a group of Timbuktu librarians enacted a daring plan to smuggle the city's great collection of rare Islamic manuscripts away from the threat of desctuction at the hands of Al Quaeda militants to the safety of southern Mali.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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Summary: "Information Hunters examines the unprecedented American effort to acquire foreign publications and information in World War II Europe. An unlikely band of librarians, scholars, soldiers, and spies went to Europe to collect books and documents to aid the Allies' cause. They travelled to neutral cities to find enemy publications for intelligence analysis and followed advancing armies to capture...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Oxford University Press 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 940.54 PIEEdsel, Robert M.
Summary: "The previously untold story of a little-known WWII Allied division whose mission was to track down European art and treasures that had been looted by the Nazis at Hitler's command"--Provided by the publisher.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Street 2009
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Summary: "This is a tragedy that begins in the halls of psychiatry and modern art and ends in the Nazis' first gas chambers. In the early 1920s, Hans Prinzhorn, a psychiatrist and aesthete, sought insight from the art of mental patients such as Franz Buhler. Buhler was a brilliant, well-known ironworker until his schizophrenia diagnosis, and his work was compared to that of Munch and Duhrer. Prinzhorn...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 700.943 ENGBeevor, Antony
Summary: Chronicles the horror of Berlin's fall to the Soviets in 1945, recalling the starvation, exposure, artillery fire, rape, and mass destruction that marked the Red Army's final push on Germany's capital.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2002
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 940.5421 BEEContents: Introduction / William R. Polk -- Theft of time / Angela H.M. Schuster -- Erasing the past: looting of archaeological sites in Southern Iraq / Micah Garen and Marie-Hélène Carleton -- A short history of the Iraq National Museum Usam / Ghaidan and Anna Paolini -- A museum is born / Lamia al-Gailani Werr -- Iraq in the beginning / Ralph Soleki -- Dawn of civilization / Harriet Crawford -- Small...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harry N. Abrams, Publishers 2005
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 935 LOOSaltzman, Cynthia
Summary: "History of Napoleon's art looting of Italy and the subsequent formation of the Louvre"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 759.5 SALKirkpatrick, Sidney.
Summary: Tells the riveting true story of how an American college professor turned Army sleuth recovered cherished symbols of Hitler's Thousand-Year Reich before they could become a rallying point in the creation of a Fourth and equally unholy Reich.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2010
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 940.531 KIRRydell, Anders
Summary: "While the Nazi party was being condemned by much of the world for burning books, they were already hard at work perpetrating an even greater literary crime. Through extensive new research that included records saved by the Monuments Men themselves--Anders Rydell tells the untold story of Nazi book theft, as he himself joins the effort to return the stolen books. When the Nazi soldiers...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 940.53 RYDBogdanos, Matthew.
Summary: Colonel Matthew Bogdanos recounts his family's experiences at Ground Zero on September 11, his missions to hunt down al-Qaeda terrorists in Afghanistan, and the investigation that led him to the discovery of more than five thousand priceless objects in Iraq.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bloomsbury Pub. 2005
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 956.7044 BOGBuhk, Tobin T.
Summary: Shows how the American Civil War created new opportunities for crime from revenge against personal enemies, counterfeiting, plunder, and abuse to massacre, and discusses the draft riot in Detroit, the Fort pillow Massacre, the rebel plot to burn New York City, and more.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Stackpole Books 2012
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 973.711 BUHFelch, Jason.
Summary: Drawing on a trove of confidential museum records and frank interviews, Felch and Frammolino give a fly-on-the-wall account of the inner workings of a world-class museum and tell the story of the Getty's dealings in the illegal antiquities trade. Fast-paced and compelling, "Chasing Aphrodite" exposes the layer of dirt beneath the polished facade of the museum business.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2011