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Rescuing Da Vinci uses 460 photographs to tell the "untold story of the 'Monuments Men'" and their discovery of more than 1,000 repositories filled with millions of items including paintings, sculptures, furniture, archives and other treasures stolen during WWII by Adolf Hitler and the Nazis.

 

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From the author

This book goes where other stories involving war have not. The heroism of our characters during air missions and combat is exceptional but more familiar. What about the courage of family members who fought their own emotional war back home?

 

I wanted readers to know their story too. And who were the soldiers assigned the most gruesome but essential task of war? Their heart wrenching experience has gone untold until now.The gratitude Dutch citizens had for their American liberators that led to a unique promise to watch over them as their own, forever? Inspiring, heartwarming, and hard to believe, but true.  

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More than anything, I want readers to meet my late friend Frieda who brought me to this story, a woman who fell in love with an American soldier and remained loyal to him until her last breath. 

From the archives

"Remember Us" is that rarest of books, a volume that transports the reader to a distant place and time and draws immense meaning from the past. By weaving together heroic personal stories of the Second World War with the pure devotion shown to thousands of fallen American soldiers in the Netherlands American Cemetery, Robert Edsel reminds us vividly of what Lincoln called the 'mystic chords of memory' that bind us together and lead us toward our better angels. This is a deeply moving work of art, and one you will indeed remember long after you put it down." 

— Admiral James Stavridis, 16th Supreme Allied Commander at NATO and author of The Restless Wave, a novel of World War II 

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