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The Monuments Men: Allied Heroes, Nazi Thieves and the Greatest Treasure Hunt in History
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The Monuments Men

By Robert M. Edsel ,

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The Night Portrait: A Novel of World War II and Da Vinci's Italy
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The Night Portrait

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The Love Songs of W.E.B. Du Bois
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The Love Songs of W.E.B. Du Bois

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The Ancient City: Life in Classical Athens and Rome
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The Ancient City

By Hazel Dodge , Peter Connolly ,

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The Book Smugglers of Timbuktu
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The Book Smugglers of Timbuktu

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Hands Around the Library: Protecting Egypt's Treasured Books
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Hands Around the Library

By Karen Leggett Abouraya , Susan L. Roth (illustrator) ,

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Turn Right at Machu Picchu: Rediscovering the Lost City One Step at a Time
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Turn Right at Machu Picchu

By Mark Adams ,

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Chasing Aphrodite: The Hunt for Looted Antiquities at the World's Richest Museum
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Chasing Aphrodite

By Jason Felch , Ralph Frammolino ,

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The Venus Fixers: The Remarkable Story of the Allied Monuments Officers Who Saved Italy's Art During World War II
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The Venus Fixers

By Ilaria Dagnini Brey ,

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Loot: The Battle Over the Stolen Treasures of the Ancient World
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Loot

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The Book Thieves: The Nazi Looting of Europe's Libraries and the Race to Return a Literary Inheritance
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The Book Thieves

By Anders Rydell , Henning Koch (translator) ,

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The Bad-Ass Librarians of Timbuktu: And Their Race to Save the World's Most Precious Manuscripts
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The Bad-Ass Librarians of Timbuktu

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Contemporary Perspectives on the Detection, Investigation and Prosecution of Art Crime: Australasian, European and North American Perspectives
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Contemporary Perspectives on the Detection, Investigation and Prosecution of Art Crime

By Duncan Chappell , Saskia Hufnagel ,

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The Whole Picture: The colonial story of the art in our museums & why we need to talk about it
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The Whole Picture

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Information Hunters: When Librarians, Soldiers, and Spies Banded Together in World War II Europe
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Information Hunters

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Plunder: Napoleon's Theft of Veronese's Feast
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Plunder

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

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Heritage Planning: Principles and Process
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Heritage Planning

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Urban Heritage, Development and Sustainability: International Frameworks, National and Local Governance
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Urban Heritage, Development and Sustainability

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Urban Centres in Asia and Latin America: Heritage and Identities in Changing Urban Landscapes
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Urban Centres in Asia and Latin America

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Fragile Cargo: The World War II Race to Save the Treasures of China's Forbidden City
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Fragile Cargo

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