The Gallery of Miracles and Madness: Insanity, Art and Hitler’s first Mass-Murder Programme

The Gallery of Miracles and Madness: Insanity, Art and Hitler’s first Mass-Murder Programme
Title The Gallery of Miracles and Madness: Insanity, Art and Hitler’s first Mass-Murder Programme PDF eBook
Author Charlie English
Publisher HarperCollins UK
Pages 396
Release 2021-08-05
Genre Art
ISBN 0008299641

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‘A riveting tale, brilliantly told' Philippe Sands The little-known story of Hitler’s war on modern art and the mentally ill.

Driving Back the Nazis

Driving Back the Nazis
Title Driving Back the Nazis PDF eBook
Author Martin King
Publisher Arcturus Publishing
Pages 315
Release 2021-05-01
Genre History
ISBN 1398808393

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A gripping account of the Allied liberation of Western Europe, masterfully told by Emmy-award winning writer and historian Martin King. Through the autumn of 1944, Allied troops made their way across Nazi-occupied Europe, liberating towns and villages as they went. Driving Back the Nazis explores this process of liberation, from the arrival of Allied forces in Paris through the emancipation of Belgium to the closing down of Nazi prison camps. But there was a darker side to liberation too - collaborators were harshly punished, and in some cases the liberating forces brought their own troubles with them. Martin King tells the story of liberation from all sides - we hear the voices of Allied high command, ordinary American and British soldiers, local civilians, and even the defeated German forces.

Saving Italy: The Race to Rescue a Nation's Treasures from the Nazis

Saving Italy: The Race to Rescue a Nation's Treasures from the Nazis
Title Saving Italy: The Race to Rescue a Nation's Treasures from the Nazis PDF eBook
Author Robert M. Edsel
Publisher W. W. Norton & Company
Pages 491
Release 2013-05-06
Genre History
ISBN 0393240452

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From the author of the #1 New York Times bestseller The Monuments Men: "An astonishing account of a little-known American effort to save Italy's…art during World War II." —Tom Brokaw When Hitler’s armies occupied Italy in 1943, they also seized control of mankind’s greatest cultural treasures. As they had done throughout Europe, the Nazis could now plunder the masterpieces of the Renaissance, the treasures of the Vatican, and the antiquities of the Roman Empire. On the eve of the Allied invasion, General Dwight Eisenhower empowered a new kind of soldier to protect these historic riches. In May 1944 two unlikely American heroes—artist Deane Keller and scholar Fred Hartt—embarked from Naples on the treasure hunt of a lifetime, tracking billions of dollars of missing art, including works by Michelangelo, Donatello, Titian, Caravaggio, and Botticelli. With the German army retreating up the Italian peninsula, orders came from the highest levels of the Nazi government to transport truckloads of art north across the border into the Reich. Standing in the way was General Karl Wolff, a top-level Nazi officer. As German forces blew up the magnificent bridges of Florence, General Wolff commandeered the great collections of the Uffizi Gallery and Pitti Palace, later risking his life to negotiate a secret Nazi surrender with American spymaster Allen Dulles. Brilliantly researched and vividly written, the New York Times bestselling Saving Italy brings readers from Milan and the near destruction of The Last Supper to the inner sanctum of the Vatican and behind closed doors with the preeminent Allied and Axis leaders: Roosevelt, Eisenhower, and Churchill; Hitler, Göring, and Himmler. An unforgettable story of epic thievery and political intrigue, Saving Italy is a testament to heroism on behalf of art, culture, and history.

The Book Smugglers of Timbuktu

The Book Smugglers of Timbuktu
Title The Book Smugglers of Timbuktu PDF eBook
Author Charlie English
Publisher William Collins
Pages 416
Release 2018-05-17
Genre Cultural property
ISBN 9780008126650

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Two tales of a city: The historical race to reach one of the world's most mythologized places, and the story of how a contemporary band of archivists and librarians, fighting to save its ancient manuscripts from destruction at the hands of al Qaeda, added another layer to the legend. To Westerners, the name "Timbuktu" long conjured a tantalising paradise, an African El Dorado where even the slaves wore gold. Beginning in the late eighteenth century, a series of explorers gripped by the fever for "discovery" tried repeatedly to reach the fabled city. But one expedition after another went disastrously awry, succumbing to attack, the climate, and disease. Timbuktu was rich in another way too. A medieval centre of learning, it was home to tens of thousands of ancient manuscripts, on subjects ranging from religion to poetry, law to history, pharmacology, and astronomy. When al-Qaeda-linked jihadists surged across Mali in 2012, threatening the existence of these precious documents, a remarkable thing happened: a team of librarians and archivists joined forces to spirit the manuscripts into hiding. Relying on extensive research and firsthand reporting, Charlie English expertly twines these two suspenseful strands into a fascinating account of one of the planet's extraordinary places, and the myths from which it has become inseparable

In the Full Light of the Sun

In the Full Light of the Sun
Title In the Full Light of the Sun PDF eBook
Author Clare Clark
Publisher Harper
Pages 437
Release 2019
Genre Fiction
ISBN 054414757X

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Berlin in the 1920s is a city of seedy night clubs and sumptuous art galleries, where nothing is quite what it seems. It is home to Emmeline, a young art student; Julius, an art expert who loves paintings more than people; and Frank, a Jewish lawyer looking for a way to protect both his family and his principles as the Nazis begin their rise to power. Rachmann, a mercurial art dealer-- and newly discovered paintings by Vincent van Gogh-- will provide a scandal that turns all their lives upside down. -- adapted from jacket

The Snow Tourist

The Snow Tourist
Title The Snow Tourist PDF eBook
Author Charlie English
Publisher Portobello Books
Pages 179
Release 2013-12-05
Genre Nature
ISBN 184627558X

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In this unique book, part eulogy, part history, part travelogue, Charlie English goes in search of the best snow on the planet. Along the way he explains the extraordinary hold this commonplace phenomenon has over us, and reveals the ongoing drama of our relationship with it. Combining on-the-slopes experience with off-piste research, Charlie English's journey begins with the magical moment when his two-year-old son sees snow for the first time, before setting off in the footsteps of the Romantic poets over the Alps, following the sled-tracks of the Inuit across Greenland, and meeting up with a flurry of fellow enthusiasts, from snow-making scientists in Japan and global warming experts in California to plough drivers in Alaska.This is a book for anyone who reaches for their mittens at the sight of the first flake.

Holy Madness

Holy Madness
Title Holy Madness PDF eBook
Author Robert N. Linrothe
Publisher Serindia Publications
Pages 445
Release 2006
Genre Art, Tantric-Buddhist
ISBN 9781932476262

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Presents an examination of the art and legends of some of the most colourful figures in South Asian and Himalayan culture. Containing contributions from ten prominent world scholars, this book provides a survey of the Mahasiddhas in art, as well as essays on associated themes: iconographic, canonical, literary, historical, and sociological. This is a groundbreaking examination of the art and legends of some of the most colourful figures in South Asian and Himalayan culture. With contributions from ten prominent world scholars, it provides both an exhaustive survey of the