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The Venus fixers : the remarkable story of the Allied soldiers who saved Italy's art during World War II
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- Creator
- Ilaria Dagnini Brey
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
- Publication
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- First edition
- New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2009
- Physical Details
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- 308 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
- ISBNs
- 9780374283094, 0374283095
- OCLC
- ocn263984526
- Includes bibliographical references ( pages [283]-287) and index.
- Italian art goes to war -- "Men must manoeuvre" -- Sicilian prelude -- The birth of the Venus fixers -- The conflict of the present and the past -- Treasure hunt -- Florence divided -- A time to rend, a time to sew -- The duelists -- Epilogue: a necessary dream