Get Free Ebook
If a book from popular writer is presented, at some time several followers of them will directly acquire the book. Even any kind of book types, however are they actually reading the book? Who understands? Therefore, we will show you a publication by familiar author entitled This publication will certainly offer you some advantages if you really reviewed it. The very first is you can get the new words as just what we have actually unknowned concerning it previously. We can also improve the foreign language from reading this book. There are any type of.
Get Free Ebook
There are a lot of books that can be prospects to review in this current age. Nonetheless, it might be difficult for you to read and also finish them simultaneously. To overcome this problem, you need to choose the initial book and also make plans for various other publications to check out after completing. If you're so confused, we advise you to choose as your reading resource.
If you actually would like to know the means of getting this book, you could comply with to read this sales letter. In this case, is just one of the products that we provide. There are still lots of books from several countries, thousands of authors with amazing floor tiles. They are all offered in the web links for getting the soft data of each book. So it's so very easy to provide the incredible features of excellences.
The reasons might not huge suggestions for reviewing a book to check out when being in spare time. It will certainly likewise not should be so sensible in undertaking the life. When you have to most likely to the other locations and also have no ideas to get guide, you could discover lots of soft documents of the book in the site that we show right here. As for obtaining the , you might not need to go to guide shop. This is the time for you to conserve the book soft documents in your gizmo and afterwards bring it all over you will go.
Preserving the routine for analysis is occasionally hard. There will be many difficulties to feel bored swiftly when analysis. Numerous pals could pick chatting or going somewhere with the others. Checking out will make other individuals really feel that you are a really book enthusiast. However, the one that reads this publication will certainly not always mean as publication fan.
It's no any faults when others with their phone on their hand, and you're too. The distinction might last on the product to open When others open the phone for chatting as well as chatting all points, you can occasionally open as well as check out the soft documents of the Obviously, it's unless your phone is offered. You could likewise make or wait in your laptop computer or computer system that eases you to review .
Product details
File Size: 1644 KB
Print Length: 336 pages
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux; First edition (June 22, 2010)
Publication Date: June 22, 2010
Sold by: Macmillan
Language: English
ASIN: B005XMKA5K
Text-to-Speech:
Enabled
P.when("jQuery", "a-popover", "ready").execute(function ($, popover) {
var $ttsPopover = $('#ttsPop');
popover.create($ttsPopover, {
"closeButton": "false",
"position": "triggerBottom",
"width": "256",
"popoverLabel": "Text-to-Speech Popover",
"closeButtonLabel": "Text-to-Speech Close Popover",
"content": '
});
});
X-Ray:
Enabled
P.when("jQuery", "a-popover", "ready").execute(function ($, popover) {
var $xrayPopover = $('#xrayPop_FA89FA4A551411E984C5C993CEFC681C');
popover.create($xrayPopover, {
"closeButton": "false",
"position": "triggerBottom",
"width": "256",
"popoverLabel": "X-Ray Popover ",
"closeButtonLabel": "X-Ray Close Popover",
"content": '
});
});
Word Wise: Enabled
Lending: Not Enabled
Screen Reader:
Supported
P.when("jQuery", "a-popover", "ready").execute(function ($, popover) {
var $screenReaderPopover = $('#screenReaderPopover');
popover.create($screenReaderPopover, {
"position": "triggerBottom",
"width": "500",
"content": '
"popoverLabel": "The text of this e-book can be read by popular screen readers. Descriptive text for images (known as “ALT textâ€) can be read using the Kindle for PC app if the publisher has included it. If this e-book contains other types of non-text content (for example, some charts and math equations), that content will not currently be read by screen readers.",
"closeButtonLabel": "Screen Reader Close Popover"
});
});
Enhanced Typesetting:
Enabled
P.when("jQuery", "a-popover", "ready").execute(function ($, popover) {
var $typesettingPopover = $('#typesettingPopover');
popover.create($typesettingPopover, {
"position": "triggerBottom",
"width": "256",
"content": '
"popoverLabel": "Enhanced Typesetting Popover",
"closeButtonLabel": "Enhanced Typesetting Close Popover"
});
});
Amazon Best Sellers Rank:
#652,999 Paid in Kindle Store (See Top 100 Paid in Kindle Store)
My wife read this a few years ago and then again for class this past spring and she loved it all over again. She would recommend it to others who enjoy European art history that was saved by the Monuments Men and women from World War II. This book focuses more on Italy then the actual Monuments Men book and it co-insides with Saving Italy.
I ordered three different books about stolen artwork/jewels from Amazon at one time. I began with the Venus Fixers, moved on to Chasing Aphrodite and ended with Flawless. The Venus Fixers was the least enjoyable of the three.I am familiar with Italian Rennaisance art, with Florence, Rome and Sienna but still felt bogged down in all the minutae. The book had no central focus to drive the narrative - I understand that there were lots of different players involved who helped save the artwork of Italy... but the book never felt exciting - that we were a first hand witness to critical events - that the Venus Fixers raced to rescue the artistic jewels of Italy.The book was interesting, just not engrossing. I was hoping that a story of Allied forces saving entire cities and their monuments and artwork from destruction would be thrilling - unfortunately, the Venus Fixers doesn't come close to that. It's more a laundry list of place names, beauracratic names and artwork. Most times when a famous piece of artwork was listed, there was no context for it. I always wanted to ask: why is that piece of art or that monument important?Read the book for its detail, but don't expect it to be a page-turner.
A very interesting account of the small band of remarkable men who tried to protect and stabilize the the monuments and art treasures of Italy as the Allies advanced. It is also an interesting account of the Italian front and the two years that it took to push the Germans out of Italy. For anyone familiar with Italy and its art, it is intriguing ti understand how close the world came to losing it. And it is a real tribute to the Americans and the British who understood how precious a heritage it is and how important it was to preserve it. Subsequent armies have not devoted time and expense and energy to preserving the treasures of other invaded countries. Definitely worth reading.
When I picked up the book, I initially had the impression that this will develop into a telephone directory type of book: too many names, too many details. But by the time I read the first 100 pages I was hooked.Why: because it brought into focus, even to one like me, who lived during WWII in Europe, and lived under bombs and survived them, how little we know, how "nothing" really we know about the manner in which so many masterpieces we admire matter-of-factly at the Uffizi, Accademia, the Archaeological Museum in Napoli, the cathedrals which we visit and admire everywhere in Italy, the bridges, the Palazzi, etc., how all these were saved by only a small number of Allied officers and by the work of most of the 50 Italian superintendents who were entrusted with these treasures, alas! too late in some cases, when the Allied forces landing in Italy in 1943.Much of the book concentrates on Tuscany and on Florence, but there is plenty about the South and the North of Italy.Personally, I will never look in the same way at Boticelli's Primavera, I will never walk along the Lungarno in Florence without imagining palazzi destroyed, bridges over the Arno annihilated, the Palazzo Pitti serving as shelter for 6000 people while the bridges and palazzi of the Arno were being blasted, 6000 people living in the Pitti in the midst of the art treasures, cooking, sleeping, worrying, waiting the war out. Among them Carlo Levi, and the Guicciardinis of the street with the same name whose palazzo on the Lungarno was mined and blasted, so many others without famous names. How the destruction was observed with great risk to life by Italian art and monuments public officers from the relative shelter of the Corridoio Vasariano, which remained almost undamaged due to Hitler fixation over the Ponte Vecchio, the only Florence bridge not to be blasted by the retreating German army.There is much about masterpieces gone forever: the bombed Camposanto in Pisa (later partially restored), the 50 or more churches of Genoa, the Ovetari Chapel in Padua and with it the Mantegna frescoes, the Ponte di Mezzo of Verona which was considered the oldest Roman bridge in Italy. So many which we will never see!This book tells us what was saved, and how, and by whom. And what was lost.Personally, thanks to this book, I will never again enter any of these museums and admire these monuments thinking that they have been there forever and forever will remain. They are fragile, and I now look at them as a gift from those who braved bombs and politics and conspired and took enormous risks to themselves in order to preserve them for us, and for those after us.D. Midroni, Moderator, Slow Travel [...]
Interesting parallel to the more popular Monuments Men (from which the movie script was based). Set in Italy, it portrays the struggle these dedicated men experienced in coping with the Germans trying to steal that country's art and the unusual efforts Italians had done to protect the treasures. Also describes how coping with military rules/regulations were handled. A good read for those who enjoy historical twists.
This has fascinating history of WWII. It is almost a study book as it is so filled with art history. You learn some about the men involved as well as their struggles to accomplish the goal of protecting the art treasures. The story of the suffering of the Italian people affected by the war is in the story also. I look forward to seeing the movie about this historical time period.
A thorough research of what happened to Italian art during WWII. Very tedious to read, so many names, places and dates. Very hard to keep track of who was who. Any WWII buff would love it. I did find interest in the history as I will be traveling sometime to Italy within the next few years and would love to go to Florence to see the only bridge that Hitler did not blow up.
I did not realize how close we came to losing so many works of great art during WWII, and that a group of officers had been designated to save and restore these priceless works of art, buildings, bridges, churches, etc. It also shows how people can work together to save the local culture and history just for the sake of preserving the culture without expecting anything in return. This is a story that has been quiet for too long.
PDF
EPub
Doc
iBooks
rtf
Mobipocket
Kindle
