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The Last Masterpiece
The Last Masterpiece: A Novel of World War II Italy | Laura Morelli
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In a race across Nazi-occupied Italy, two womena German photographer and an American stenographerhunt for priceless masterpieces looted from the Florentine art collections. In the summer of 1943, Eva Brunner is taking photographs of Nazi-looted art hidden in the salt mines of the Austrian hinterland. Across the ocean in Connecticut, Josephine Evans is working as a humble typist at the Yale Art Gallery. When both women are called to Italy to contribute to the war effort, neither imagines she will hold the fate of some of the worlds greatest masterpieces torn from the Uffizi Galleries and other Florentine art collections in her hands. But as Italy turns from ally to enemy and Hitlers plan to destroy irreplaceable monuments and works of art becomes frighteningly clear, each womans race against the clockand against one anothermight demand more than they were prepared to give. 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 artand 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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📬 𝑩𝒐𝒐𝒌 𝑴𝒂𝒊𝒍 📚

𝐋𝐚𝐮𝐫𝐚 𝐌𝐨𝐫𝐞𝐥𝐥𝐢 is a new-to-me author whose writing I can enjoy thanks to the generosity of Bibliolifestyle & William Morrow Books.

I love World War II-era historical fiction based on actual events & heroes. A daughter of the Greatest Generation, I love learning more about that time period because my father served while my mother waited for him to return. 𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐋𝐚𝐬𝐭 𝐌𝐚𝐬𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐩𝐢𝐞𝐜𝐞 sounds riveting!

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An American stenographer and a German photographer meet in Italy.

Both women are trying to save the art the Germans are taking and hiding.

Art aficionados and art historians will devour this beautifully written book that tells of how art was protected during WWII. 4/5

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