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David Shires

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Description:In March 1918, with World War 1 still raging, the man who would become the twentieth century’s most famous economist crossed the English Channel with a Royal Navy destroyer escort and a silver airship watching overhead. His madcap mission – to journey across the killing fields of northern France to a Paris under siege and with £20,000 finessed from the British Treasury, rescue some of the world’s greatest art from the chaos of war and bring it safely home to London’s National Gallery for the good of the nation.But Keynes has another, more personal reason for going. Recruited by the Government at the outbreak of hostilities, his fellow intellectuals in the pacifist Bloomsbury Group now call him ‘the war-mongers accountant’. By saving objects of beauty from possible destruction, he hopes to win back the respect and love of his friends. This novel, based on real events, is the little-known story of those few hectic, dangerous days…We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with A Spark of Adventure: John Maynard Keynes and the Degas Auction. To get started finding A Spark of Adventure: John Maynard Keynes and the Degas Auction, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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Description: In March 1918, with World War 1 still raging, the man who would become the twentieth century’s most famous economist crossed the English Channel with a Royal Navy destroyer escort and a silver airship watching overhead. His madcap mission – to journey across the killing fields of northern France to a Paris under siege and with £20,000 finessed from the British Treasury, rescue some of the world’s greatest art from the chaos of war and bring it safely home to London’s National Gallery for the good of the nation.But Keynes has another, more personal reason for going. Recruited by the Government at the outbreak of hostilities, his fellow intellectuals in the pacifist Bloomsbury Group now call him ‘the war-mongers accountant’. By saving objects of beauty from possible destruction, he hopes to win back the respect and love of his friends. This novel, based on real events, is the little-known story of those few hectic, dangerous days…We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with A Spark of Adventure: John Maynard Keynes and the Degas Auction. To get started finding A Spark of Adventure: John Maynard Keynes and the Degas Auction, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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