When, for example, he's addressing Jewish audiences, he'll mention the hundreds of Torahs collected by the Nazis, then found and repatriated by the MonumentsMen.
" His original plan was to tell both stories between a single set of covers, "but when I was writing 'Monuments Men' and it got to 500, 600, 700 pages it was clear that something had to go.
Mr. Edsel is confident that the movie will give a nice lift to the MonumentsMen Foundation for the Preservation of Art, the nonprofit he established half a dozen years ago to safeguard the legacy of his "protagonists" and to help complete their mission of returning stolen treasures to their owners.