The woman who saved stolen Jewish art — and the writer who is finally telling her story

The woman who saved stolen Jewish art — and the writer who is finally telling her story

French art historian and resistance hero Rose Valland is the subject of Michelle Young's first narrative nonfiction book, 'The Art Spy.'

Michelle Young on Telling the Story of Rose Valland, the WWII Hero and “Art Spy”

If you’ve read books about spies and resistance fighters in World War II-era France, there’s a decent chance you’ve come across the name Rose Valland: the woman who tracked Nazi looting from the inside. But most of those accounts offer scant detail about her life or wartime activities, and others leave her out altogether. Now, with The Art Spy: The Extraordinary Untold Tale of WWII Resistance Hero Rose Valland, Michelle Young has revealed the ex…