The Rape of Europa: The Fate of Europe's Treasures in the Third Reich and the Second World War
by Lynn H. Nicholas

The cast of characters includes Adolf Hitler and Hermann Goering, Gertrude Stein and Marc Chagall--not to mention works by artists from Leonardo da Vinci to Pablo Picasso. And the story told in this superbly researched and suspenseful book is that of the Third Reich's war on European culture and the Allies' desperate effort to preserve it.

From the Nazi purges of "Degenerate Art" and Goering's shopping sprees in occupied Paris to the perilous journey of the Mona Lisa from Paris (while bridges exploded in its wake) and the painstaking reclamation of the priceless treasures of liberated Italy, The Rape of Europa is a sweeping narrative of greed, philistinism, and heroism that combines superlative scholarship with the breakneck pace of a thriller.

WINNER of the National Book Critics Circle Award

"At once fascinating and horrifying [with] a strong element of spine-chilling suspense."
Lost Angeles Times

"Nicholas knows the art world as well as any military historian knows his battlefield. . . Her work deserves the widest reading among those who call themselves civilized."
The New York Times Book Review

LYNN H. NICHOLAS was born in New London, Connecticut. She was educated in the United States, England, and Spain, and received her B.A. from Oxford University. After her return to the United States she worked for several years at the National Gallery of Art. While living in Belgium in the early 1980s, she began research for this book, her first. She currently lives with her husband in Washington, D.C.

Publishing House: Vintage Books, New York 1995
SoftCover book measuring 5.2" x 8"
499 pages, index
English Language Version

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