Book Club: The Monuments Men by Robert Edsel

The Bryan Museum Book Club is a social group who enjoys studying books about Texas and the American West. Our primary focus is non-fiction works, with the occasional fictional work included.

Third Thursday of every other month
La Sirena Bar inside The Bryan Museum

The Monuments Men by Robert Edsel

The book that serves as the basis for the acclaimed George Clooney major motion picture, The Monuments Men.

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 Fuhrer had begun cataloguing 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 eleven-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.