Finished: The Monuments Men by Robert M. Edsel with Bret Witter

THE MONUMENTS MEN by Robert M. Edsel with Bret Witter is a book that required lots of research as it seems this was not something that either the service or the men themselves promoted. There were several books at the time but the dedication is lost to us now, except for maybe this book. I am not happy with the people who wrote the movie, but my husband said because they changed the book, that is why they had to change the names of the men. So the movie has some parts of the book in it's scenes, but it misses some key elements. In the movie we have a team that was started by personal invitation, he goes to each character and invites them on this mission. They all work together with some going off by themselves, but they still seemed to form a cohesive group. In the book this is not what happens, they do not even meet each other except towards the end and then that is just a few of them. At the end the book, you find that the main character Stout does not even like to talk about his time over in Germany. So yes artifacts were recovered and yes there are still artifacts unrecovered, and yes two men died in their attempt to find artifacts. But it is not the movie version. If you love history and if you have always wondered about what happened to the art, treasures taken from other countries and from the Jewish population, then read the book. But is you want the drama only the movies can give, but in my thoughts didn't, then see the movie.