Saving Britain's Art Treasures from the Nazis

N.J. McCamley (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

224 Seiten

2002
Pen & Sword Books Ltd (Verlag)
978-0-85052-918-0 (ISBN)

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This book explains for the first time the full story of the wartime adventures of Britain's greatest art treasures.At first the pictures and other artefacts were distributed amongst a number of large country houses. Initially the owners of these houses almost fought one another for the right to house the Treasures. Later, when further accommodation was needed for treasures from the provincial museums, the tables turned and the Office of Works was reduced to bribing owners by promising that they would be spared billetees, and that their houses would be immune from requisitioning.By mid 1940 however, circumstances transpired that made the country houses untenable. German air bases in northern France made the whole of Britain vulnerable. Eventually two deep underground repositories were constructed, one in Wales and one in Wiltshire, and by the end of 1942 virtually all the cultural heritage of the nation was concentrated there. Building and operation of these underground treasure houses did not, however, go smoothly, as described here.

Nick McCamley is the author of the best selling Secret Underground City and Cold War Secret Nuclear Bunkers (both Leo Cooper). He is a foremost authority on the UK's secret installations and has even owned one such site. He lives near Bradford-on-Avon, Wiltshire near the Corsham underground complex.

Erscheint lt. Verlag	6.6.2002
Zusatzinfo	Illustrations
Verlagsort	Barnsley
Sprache	englisch
Themenwelt	Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Kunstgeschichte / Kunststile
	Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► 1918 bis 1945
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
	Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Militärgeschichte
ISBN-10	0-85052-918-2 / 0850529182
ISBN-13	978-0-85052-918-0 / 9780850529180
Zustand	Neuware