SAVING BRITAIN'S ART TREASURES FROM THE NAZIS

Author: N J McCamley

Publisher: Pen & Sword

Year published: 2002

Pagination: 224pp, illustrations

Condition: New

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To safeguard Britain's art treasures at the outbreak of WWII, pictures and other artefacts were distributed amongst a number of large country houses, the owners often vying for the right to house them. By mid 1940 however, circumstances made the country houses untenable as German air bases in France made the whole of Britain vulnerable. Eventually two deep underground repositories were constructed in Wales and Wiltshire and, by the end of 1942, virtually all the nation's cultural heritage was concentrated in these underground treasure houses.