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Book Review of The Monuments Men: Allied Heroes, Nazi Thieves, and the Greatest Treasure Hunt in History

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If you enjoyed the movie, you must really read the book. The book is so much more interesting than the movie the movie can't even be compared to the book.

Speaking of which, one of the things I found funny in the movie was when John Goodman seem to drive all over France looking for a doctor to help his wounded friend. Yet the friend was wounded during an attack by an American unit against a German unit. Duh! Didn't Goodman's character know American units have medics with the platoons and doctors at the battalion level?

Of course, there were a dozens of other things Hollywood threw in to make the movie 'exciting,' but the truth was exciting enough as related in the book.