Countless masterpieces in the Louvre, such as the Nike or Winged Victory of Samothrace, were saved from the Nazis in Word War II.

A small squad in northern Greece is ordered among others to go to Cyprus, but when the dictatorship falls, the soldiers are left in the island of Samothrace awaiting orders. As days pass things ...

Johnson was particularly enthralled with a Greek sculpture called “The Winged Victory of Samothrace," which dates ... a ...