Robert M. Edsel has 4 audiobooks on Listento.it, narrated by 3 narrators, with an average listener rating of 4.5★ across 3 ratings. The most-rated is The Monuments Men.
The Monuments Men
Summary
At the same time Adolf Hitler was attempting to take over the western world, his armies were methodically seeking and hoarding the finest art treasures in Europe. The Fuehrer had begun cataloging the art he planned to collect as well as the art he would destroy: "degenerate" works he despised. In a race against time, behind enemy lines, often unarmed, a special force of American and British museum directors, curators, art historians, and others, called the Monuments Men, risked their lives scouring Europe to prevent the destruction of thousands of years of culture. Focusing on the 11-month period between D-Day and V-E Day, this fascinating account follows six Monuments Men and their impossible mission to save the world's great art from the Nazis.
©2009 Robert M. Edsel (P)2009 Macmillan Audio
The Monuments Men
Summary
Now a major motion film! At the same time Adolf Hitler was attempting to take over the western world, his armies were methodically seeking and hoarding the finest art treasures in Europe. The Fuehrer had begun cataloging the art he planned to collect as well as the art he would destroy: "degenerate" works he despised. In a race against time, behind enemy lines, often unarmed, a special force of American and British museum directors, curators, art historians, and others, called the Monuments Men, risked their lives scouring Europe to prevent the destruction of thousands of years of culture. Focusing on the 11-month period between D-Day and V-E Day, this fascinating account follows six Monuments Men and their impossible mission to save the world's great art from the Nazis.
©2009 Robert M. Edsel (P)2009 Macmillan Audio
Monuments Men
Summary
Es ist ein Wettlauf gegen die Zeit: Die Nationalsozialisten organisieren den größten Diebstahl der Geschichte und lassen aus den besetzten Gebieten Europas mehr als fünf Millionen Kunstobjekte für das Führermuseum ins Reich schaffen. Als die Alliierten in der Normandie landen, ist unter ihnen eine Sondereinheit: die Monuments Men. Ihr Auftrag: bedeutende Kulturgüter vor der Zerstörung zu schützen, geraubte und verschollene Kunstwerke aufzuspüren Gemälde von Leonardo, Vermeer und Rembrandt, Skulpturen von Michelangelo. Robert M. Edsel erzählt die atemberaubende Schatzsuche anhand von persönlichen Briefen und Tagebüchern der Schlüsselfiguren bis zum dramatischen Showdown im Salzbergwerk von Altaussee. Bereits in 19 Sprachen übersetzt. Die Vorlage zum Film von und mit George Clooney.
©2013 Residenz Verlag (P)2013 Der Hörverlag in der Verlagsgruppe Random House GmbH, München
The Greatest Treasure Hunt in History
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Robert M. Edsel, number one New York Times best-selling author of The Monuments Men, brings this story to young listeners for the first time in a sweeping, dynamic adventure detailing history's greatest treasure hunt. As the most destructive war in history ravaged Europe, many of the world's most cherished cultural objects were in harm's way. The Greatest Treasure Hunt in History recounts the astonishing true story of 11 men and one woman who risked their lives amidst the bloodshed of World War II to preserve churches, libraries, monuments, and works of art that for centuries defined the heritage of Western civilization. As the war raged, these American and British volunteers - museum curators, art scholars and educators, architects, archivists, and artists, known as the Monuments Men - found themselves in a desperate race against time to locate and save the many priceless treasures and works of art stolen by Adolf Hitler and the Nazis.
©2019 Robert M. Edsel (P)2019 Scholastic Inc.