Reply #34: Unfortunately, it is not airing on my local PBS stations...nor out of NYC either here.

[CTyankee]

Damnit!

I read the book, of course, and it was wonderful. If you liked it I also recommend "Rescuing DaVinci" which is about the Monument Men in WW2 and "The Venus Fixers" about the monument men in Italy. They are superb accounts about the mostly American and British/Australia/Canadian efforts to find or rescue the art of Europe. Actually thrilling accounts...

But "The Rape of Europa" is a real masterpiece and absolutely riviting. I started to cry when I read how the German army blew up all of the bridges in Florence, except for the Ponte Vecchio, including the Santa Trinita, which had been designed by Michelangelo. That bridge was so sturdily built the German army had to detonate it 3 times before bringing it, and its beauty, down...