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Helen Fry in Conversation with Michelle Young on “The Art Spy”
July 20, 2025 @ 11:00 am - 12:00 pm EDT
A riveting saga set in Paris during World War II, THE ART SPY uncovers how an unlikely heroine Rose Valland infiltrated the Nazi leadership to save the cultural legacy of the West.
In her masterful biography of one of the greatest unknown heroines of World War II, Michelle Young brings the French art historian Rose Valland to brilliant life and finally gives her the credit she is due.
Daily risking her life during the war to document the Nazis’ looting of tens of thousands of French works of art, the quiet, unassuming Valland then helped locate and return the vast majority of those treasures after the War.
In the series:
Jun. 22: with Elyse Graham on Book & Dagger: How Scholars and Librarians Became the Unlikely Spies of World War II
Jul. 20: with Michelle Young on The Art Spy: The Extraordinary Untold Tale of WWII Resistance Hero Rose Valland
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