A review by katietaylor04
Saving Italy: The Race to Rescue a Nation's Treasures from the Nazis by Robert M. Edsel

3.0

Interesting story. It reads very much like a documentary and less like a novel. If you know that going into it you will probably like it more. I gave it three stars because for as much as it is a war story and about saving priceless works of art, it is really pretty dry and not really captivating. I was really hoping to like this one even better than his first one, Monuments Men, because Saving Italy deals with Italian art which I like more than Northern European art, which is what Monuments Men deals with. However, I felt that Monuments Men presented the stories better, helped you connect better to the MFAA people, and was just an easier read. And even it was sometimes dry. So, it is worth a read. But it is sometimes really hard to get through.