Jeffrey Brown talks to author Robert Edsel about his new book "The Monuments Men: Allied Heroes, Nazi Thieves and the Greatest Treasure Hunt in History."

Nel nuovo libro dello scrittore Usa spicca la figura di Deane Keller che difese il Camposanto di Pisa

In un libro dell’uomo d’affari texano Edsel i protagonisti della tutela di tesori come il Cenacolo

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After U.S. Army Pvt. Harry L. Ettlinger got the confiscated stained-glass windows out of the Nazis’ secret salt mine, he took a walk down one of its long corridors and came to a bricked-up doorway.

Lives are not all that is lost in war, as this tribute to unsung heroes reminds us.

When Robert Edsel was 42 — having sold his Texas oil- and gas-exploration business for $37 million — he, his wife and their 3-year-old son moved to Florence, Italy, in search of "something different."

Robert Edsel, author of The Monuments Men, responded to viewer comments and questions.

Robert Edsel talked about his book, Saving Italy: The Race to Rescue a Nation’s Treasures From the Nazis, in which he reports on the rescue and protection of historic pieces of art in Italy during World War II. The Nazi Army, who occupied Italy in 1943, looted numerous historic artifacts and artwork that dated from the Renaissance and the Roman Empire. In his book, the author recounts the Allied mission to reacquire the artwork and focuses on the efforts of two men, art scholar Fred Hartt and artist Deane Keller, who pursued missing works by Michelangelo, Caravaggio, and Donatello.

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