“This intense and exciting book brings back to life the voice of Ludwig Pollak who, when confronted with Nazi-occupied Rome’s grim reality, powerfully conveys a taste for collecting, the pleasure of erudition, and an unshakeable faith in culture. This period of European history—remarkably captured here by Hans von Trotha—still has much to tell us.”
Salvatore Settis, chairman of the Louvre Museum Scientific Council and author of Laocoön and If Venice Dies