This book is a neat look at art during WWII as the Nazi soldiers “invade”. The story starts in Rome in 1943. Art lover, Marina Tozzi, helps her father run an art gallery there. Her father is killed for harboring a Jewish artist. Marina flees to Florence’s Villa I Tatti, owned by her father’s friend, American Bernard Berenson. He has accumulated a collection of artwork that he wants to protect and eventually donate to Harvard. Also at the villa is Belle da Costa Greene, the famed librarian who curated J.P. Morgan’s library. I read The Personal Librarian which is a book about Belle’s work at J.P. Morgan’s library. The way I pictured Belle while reading The Personal was completely different than how I pictured her in A Girl During the War. Belle works beside Marina as Bernard sneaks art pieces to Switzerland. The next-door neighbor Carlos becomes a love interest of Marina’s. He disappears though. At the end of the bo...