Much better than the film 1

The film although disappointing had the merit to make known to the general public the discreet role of MFAA (Section monuments of fine arts and archives), which makes you want more. This book reads well enough, but the translation sometimes seems hesitant. It is a story made from men of letters components that "brigade", which gives a sometimes disjointed appearance to the whole. Nevertheless we learn a lot about this page of history in this book and it is pleasant to read. It really puts the story in the context of the time.

Spent the first 80 pages a bit tedious difficulties encountered when creating this section we enter the heart of the matter following the landing of June 6 44. This handful of men was alone facing an unprecedented Mission . Indeed, the second world war coincided with the largest displacement of cultural property in the history of mankind. These men had the feelings of conduct another war against the tide of the conflict. That is why they can release their cultural mission after the war, given the scale of the human disaster. Indeed preserve works of arts in the chaos may seem quirky. They have 6 years to complete their mission of Normandy to Austria and lived an extraordinary human adventure to save of Nazi barbarism invaluable European cultural heritage.