盟軍英雄、納粹強盜和史上最大規模的尋寶之旅
本書已翻拍成電影《大尋寶家》,由喬治克隆尼、麥特戴蒙、比爾墨瑞、約翰古德曼、尚杜賈丹、鮑勃巴拉班、休拜尼維利、迪米崔里奧尼達斯 、 凱特布蘭琪共同主演!
親眼見證史上最空前超凡的文物保衛戰!
第二次世界大戰中,希特勒和納粹占領歐洲期間,進行了「史上最大規模的盜竊」,奪取超過五百萬件文物,並運送到第三帝國存放。其中包括價值連城的李奧納多.達文西、楊.維梅爾(Johannes
Vermeer)和林布蘭特(Rembrandt)的繪畫以及米開朗基羅(Michelangelo)和多納泰羅(Donatello)的雕塑。這成千上萬的世界偉大藝術傑作藏匿在最令人難以置信的地點。
前線有一群人,他們不是政治家,沒有機關槍與坦克;但是,他們不僅具有遠見,了解什麼是偉大文化和藝術文明成就的最大威脅,甚至還親身投入戰場,奉獻一己之力,與時間賽跑,領導西方盟軍,展開「史上最大規模的尋寶之旅」,留下許多只有在戰爭時代才會發生的不可思議且離奇的故事。
他們是「古蹟捍衛者」,《大尋寶家》就是他們出生入死的驚險故事。
At the same time Adolf Hitler was attempting to take over the western world, his armies were methodically seeking and hoarding the finest art treasures in Europe. The Fuehrer had begun
cataloguing the art he planned to collect as well as the art he would destroy: "degenerate" works he despised.
In a race against time, behind enemy lines, often unarmed, a special force of American and British museum directors, curators, art historians, and others, called the Momuments Men, risked
their lives scouring Europe to prevent the destruction of thousands of years of culture.
Focusing on the eleven-month period between D-Day and V-E Day, this fascinating account follows six Monuments Men and their impossible mission to save the world's great art from the
Nazis.
★本書中譯版《大尋寶家》由天培出版社出版。