“Here, Mortimer Wheeler thought, is power. And a reminder of our mortality.”

“Here, Mortimer Wheeler thought, is power. And a reminder of our mortality.”

“The thought came back to him, as it often did: To save the culture of your allies is a small thing. To cherish the culture of your enemy, to risk your life and the life of other men to save it, to give it all back to them as soon as the battle was won … it was unheard of, but that was exactly what Walker Hancock and the other Monuments Men intended to do.”