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The Last Masterpiece takes readers on a heart-pumping adventure up the Italian peninsula, where nothing is as it seems and some of the greatest works of art and human achievement are at stake. Who might steal and who might save a work of art—and at what cost?
Inspired by the incredible true story of the Monuments Women, the Fifth Army WACs, and the looted Florentine art collections during World War II, the latest historical novel by USA Today bestselling author and art historian Laura Morelli plunges readers into the heart of war-torn Italy.
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China, 1937: When Japanese bombs begin falling on the city of Nanking, 19-year-old Hu Lian and her classmates at Minghua University are ordered to flee. Lian and a convoy of more than 100 students, faculty, and staff must walk 1,000 miles to the safety of China’s western provinces, a journey marred by hunger, cold, and the constant threat of aerial attack. And it is not just the student refugees who are at risk: Lian and her classmates have been entrusted with a priceless treasure, a 500-year-old collection of myths and folklore known as the Library of Legends.
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Wonderful and Umique!
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Sarat Chestnut, born in Louisiana, is only six when the Second American Civil War breaks out in 2074. But even she knows that oil is outlawed, that Louisiana is half underwater, that unmanned drones fill the sky. And when her father is killed and her family is forced into Camp Patience for displaced persons, she quickly begins to be shaped by her particular time and place until, finally, through the influence of a mysterious functionary, she is turned into a deadly instrument of war.
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Shortly after his arrival in Uganda, Scottish doctor Nicholas Garrigan is called to the scene of a bizarre accident: Idi Amin, careening down a dirt road in his Maserati, has hit a cow. When Garrigan tends to Amin, the dictator, obsessed with all things Scottish, appoints him as his personal physician. So begins a fateful dalliance with the African leader whose Emperor Jones-style autocracy would transform into a reign of terror.
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Worst Production Ever
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The chilling fictional memoir of Dr. Maximilien Aue, a former Nazi officer who has reinvented himself, many years after the war, as a middle-class family man and factory owner in France. Max is an intellectual steeped in philosophy, literature, and classical music. He is also a cold-blooded assassin and the consummate bureaucrat. Through the eyes of this cultivated yet monstrous man, we experience in disturbingly precise detail the horrors of the Second World War and the Nazi genocide of the Jews.
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Office politics in hell
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Set at the end of World War II, in a crumbling Bavarian castle that once played host to all of German high society, a powerful and propulsive story of three widows whose lives and fates become intertwined - an affecting, shocking, and ultimately redemptive novel from the author of the New York Times notable book The Hazards of Good Breeding.
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Skating On The Thin Ice Of Life
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Set in Appalachia in the years before World War II, Velva Jean Learns to Drive is a poignant story of a spirited young girl growing up in the gold-mining and moonshining South. Before she dies, Velva Jean's mother urges her to "live out there in the great wide world." Velva Jean dreams of becoming a big-time singer in Nashville until she falls in love with Harley Bright, a handsome juvenile delinquent turned revival preacher.
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In the summer of 1942, as war rages across Europe, a series of anonymous leaflets appears around the University of Munich, speaking out against escalating Nazi atrocities. The leaflets are hidden in public places, or mailed to addresses selected at random from the phone book. Natalya Petrovich, a student, knows who is behind the leaflets - a secret group called the White Rose, led by siblings Hans and Sophie Scholl and their friends. As a volunteer nurse on the Russian front, Natalya witnessed the horrors of war first-hand. She willingly enters the White Rose's circle....
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Not all the Germans are guilty.
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American lawyer and former police detective Judge Devlin is in Europe sifting through evidence of Nazi atrocities. He is part of the International Military Tribunal, but his agenda is personal. He hopes to convict SS member and former Olympic sprinter Eric Seyss, the man responsible for his military chaplain brother’s death. When Judge learns Eric has just escaped from an American POW camp, the American sets off in a desperate race for vengeance.
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this story just went on and on and on
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Declare
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As a young double agent infiltrating the Soviet spy network in Nazi-occupied Paris, Andrew Hale finds himself caught up in a secret, even more ruthless war. Two decades later, a coded message draws Professor Andrew Hale back into Her Majesty’s Secret Service. Elements from his past are gathering in Beirut, including ex-British counterespionage chief and Soviet mole Kim Philby, and a beautiful former Spanish Civil War soldier-turned-intelligence operative.
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Oh Fish. Art Thou Constant???
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De: Tim Powers
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All for Nothing
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In East Prussia, January 1945, the German forces are in retreat, and the Red Army is approaching. The von Globig family's manor house, the Georgenhof, is falling into disrepair. Auntie runs the estate as best she can since Eberhard von Globig, a special officer in the German army, went to war, leaving behind his beautiful but vague wife, Katharina, and her bookish 12-year-old son, Peter. As the road fills with Germans fleeing the occupied territories, the Georgenhof begins to receive strange visitors - a Nazi violinist, a dissident painter, a Baltic baron, even a Jewish refugee.
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All for Nothing
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A Long, Long Time Ago and Essentially True
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The novel opens on the eve of World War II. In the mountain village of Half-Village, a young man nicknamed the Pigeon, under the approving eyes of the entire village, courts the beautiful Anielica Hetmanska. But the war's arrival wreaks havoc in all their lives and delays their marriage for six long years.
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The Old & New Worlds Converge & Transcend Time
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- Syd Young
- 08-11-23
Saving ART!
I’ve been reading WWII fiction all my adult life and still am amazed at what historical fiction teaches me, all while I’m enjoying a good book. There was so much in The Last Masterpiece that astounded me. Heart breaking that both the Allies and the Nazis destroyed so much historic art and buildings. But how brave of the Italian people to work so hard to hide precious masterpieces. As the author points out, the world is much richer for it.
I enjoyed see the story of the monuments saving from the female perspective—and from both a US and German POV. That also brought on the perspective of those receiving the misinformation. I’m the end, I’m thankful, all over again, for those who sacrificed so much.
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- evelyn O.
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Accuracy! Fascinating!
Held my interest throughout! Wonderfully written. The soft spokeness of the reader kept me calm and interested.
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- Mare99
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Stolen Art - Italy
My understanding of the scope of Nazi art theft during WWII was gradual. News stories. A few documentaries. I was shocked when the amount of art in the Russian Hermitage Museum was revealed. Then I saw the recent movie, The Monuments Men. They portrayed visually the magnitude of the stolen art of Europe.
What The Last Masterpiece brings to this history is its focus on Italian art. Italy was the center of the Renaissance, and its museums were full of the most precious paintings ready to be gathered up and sent to Germany. Although fictional, Morelli creates a living story. She allows a place for women's work on the projects, something that has been ignored, Morelli herself immerses in the cities and spaces of Italy, visits the museums and historic buildings, then writes so the reader has the sense of almost being there with her. The lushness and beauty of Florence, and then its destruction caused my heart to ache. Told from the point of view of two women cataloging the art from two different political perspectives gives the novel a sweeping sense of history and shows how conflicting purposes of war can each inspire dedication. This story is richer in texture than anything else I have read about the stolen art, and I am glad I found it.
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- iggynut
- 08-08-23
Review of The Last Masterpiece
Laura Morelli has written a historical novel about the hiding and unhiding of Italian masterpieces during WWII. This is an excellent book in which the story is told from numerous points of view, some of which clash. A reader will also find interpretations of why art is of paramount importance to a culture. I felt like I was there, amidst the mud and the glory. The narrators are great! I highly recommend this book.
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- Bob L.
- 09-25-23
Can’t finish
I am an art lover and appreciator; however, this book is very hard to get through unless you are an art history student or working in a museum. There is just so much detail on each specific painting that it’s overwhelming and boring. The human stories didn’t grip me enough to get to the end. Easily half this book could be cut out. I do acknowledge and appreciate the immense amount of research that the author must’ve put into this.
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