On Wednesday 23 August 1939, the National Gallery closed its doors to the public, not knowing when they would open again. The paintings were to be secretly evacuated in a relocation that took only eleven days. The last shipment left Trafalgar Square on 2 September, the day before war was declared. This book tells the story of the National Gallery.
A photographic record of the paintings' war, as they were evacuated first to Wales, then into Manod Quarry, a slate mine beneath 200 feet of rock.
