At the same time Adolf Hitler was attempting to take over the western world‎,‎ his armies were methodically seeking and hoarding the finest art treasures in Europe‎.‎ The Fuehrer had begun cataloguing the art he planned to collect as well as the art he would destroy‎:‎ ‎"‎degenerate‎"‎ works he despised‎.‎ In a race against time‎,‎ behind enemy lines‎,‎ often unarmed‎,‎ a special force of American and British museum directors‎,‎ curators‎,‎ art historians‎,‎ and others‎,‎ called the Momuments Men‎,‎ risked their lives scouring Europe to prevent the destruction of thousands of years of culture‎.‎ Focusing on the eleven‎-month period between D‎-Day and V‎-E Day‎,‎ this fascinating account follows six Monuments Men and their impossible mission to save the world‎'‎s great art from the Nazis‎.‎