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Hey, everyone. Ray here with another book recommendation.

By the time the Nazis had overtaken Paris, French artist Henri Matisse was already an enemy of the Third Reich.

In his quest to dominate not just territory but culture, Hitler declared avant-gardeism to be degenerate art,

guilty of cultural disintegration, and this included the works by Matisse. The artist would define the Nazis

by continuing to make vibrant, hopeful, colorful art that can now be found in every major art center

around the world. Matisse's family, too, would find their own methods of undermining Hitler's

tyranny. From acclaimed author Christopher Gorham, Matisse-Adwar,

Art and Renaissance in Nazi-occupied France, is a skillfully told story of an icon of the French

resistance and his family's role. Matisse's daughter, Marguerite, was bold and daring as her father,

and she would ferry intelligence from Ren to Bordeaux

both cities under German occupation. She would be arrested and tortured by the Gestapo.

The family matriarch Amelie in her 70s was fortified by her open contempt for the Nazis

and their art thievery. She too was betrayed and arrested.

A must read for history buffs and art lovers sweeping from Paris to Provence, from New York to

Berlin. World War II historian Alex Kershaw calls this a mesmerizing story of artistic genius,

a gutsy family, and defiance of tyranny in the face of evil.

Matisse Adwar from Kensington Books is available everywhere books are sold,

and you can learn more at history of World War II podcast.

Episode 570, Rommel's last offensive.

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