The Book Smugglers: Partisans, Poets And The Race To Save Jewish Treasures From The Nazis

The Monuments Men for book lovers. The nearly unbelievable story of ghetto residents who rescued thousands of rare books and manuscripts - first from the Nazis and then from the Soviets - by hiding them on their bodies, burying them in bunkers, and smuggling them across borders. This is a tale of heroism and resistance, of friendship and romance, and of unwavering devotion - including the readiness to risk one's life - to literature and art. Thoroughly researched by the foremost scholar of the Vilna Ghetto. The Book Smugglers is an epic story of human heroism, a little-known tale from the blackest days of the war.