The Art Front: The Defense of French Collections, 1939–1945

Author: Rose Valland

Monuments woman Rose Valland, one of the great heroines of the arts during World War II, risked her life to track the Nazi looting of art in France. Her story has inspired films like The Train and The Monuments Men. But this is her story, told in her own words. The Art Front: The Defense of French Collections 1939–1945 presents Valland's memoir in English for the first time. Originally published in French in 1961, it recounts her work at the Jeu de Paume Museum in Nazi-occupied Paris, where she secretly documented the theft of thousands of artworks.

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404 pages