IRB #3: The Monuments Men

For the third marking period, I decided to chose a nonfiction text that is based off a historical account rather than my past one which focused on research and investigations. While I have become familiar with The Monuments Men because of its film that is being released in the near future, I have decided to read the book and hopefully compare it to the movie once it comes out. I think this topic seems pretty interesting because I did learn a lot about World War II freshman year, however this twist on the war shows aspects of what world war life was like for Europeans who were not exactly in the same situations than the ones we learned about. In addition, since I am Jewish I am interested in this time period where some of my ancestors faced some of the most inhumane treatment in history; therefore, I have a lot of knowledge to expand on because I learned about WWII and the Holocaust in both school and Hebrew School. Not only do I hope to gain knowledge about this subject because it is a subtopic of the war I am unfamiliar with, but I also am interested to see how a historical text uses rhetorical devices to enhance the text and ultimately achieve its purpose. I also always find it interesting to read books and compare them to the movie because for the most part the movie is always inferior to the book rating because it is altered than to book.