Format:
Online-Ressource (xvi, 265 p)
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ill
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24 cm
Edition:
Online-Ausg. 2009 Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
ISBN:
3110177307
Series Statement:
Cultural property studies
Content:
In Bibliophiles and Bibliothieves, Opritsa Popa has documented what might justifiably be described as the most celebrated case of looting of two German cultural treasures by a member of the U.S. Army at the end of World War II and their subsequent odyssey
Note:
Includes bibliographical references (p. [241]-254) and index
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Preface; Contents; List of Illustrations and Captions; Introduction and Acknowledgments; Liber Sapientiae and Willehalm Codex,1939-2002 - A Chronology; Chapter 1: "They've Sown the WindAnd Now They Reap the Whirlwind."; Chapter 2: "Habent Sua Fata Libelli" -Books Have Their Own Destiny; Chapter 3: Countdown to Surrender; Chapter 4: "Protect and RespectThese Symbols …"; Chapter 5: Of US Safekeepers, Soviet TrophyCommissars and Marauding Allied Soldiers; Chapter 6: "Enjoy the War, the PeaceIs Going to be Terrible!"; Chapter 7: Hope Deferred; Chapter 8: Going, Going, Gone!
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Chapter 9: "Belle of the Books"Chapter 10: The Professor; Chapter 11: The Countess of Camarillo; Chapter 12: Ardelia; Chapter 13: From the Ashes of the Phoenix; Chapter 14: Return of the Wounded Warrior; Chapter 15: Eyewitness; Chapter 16: Ten Years Later …Proof, Proof and More Proof; Chapter 17: To Err is Human, to Admit, Divine; Chapter 18: The Owl of Minerva; Chapter 19: "The Last, the Worst,Dull Spoiler, Who Was He?"; Appendix; Biographical Sketches; Works Cited; Index
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Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9783110177305
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Bibliophiles and Bibliothieves : The Search for the Hildebrandslied and the Willehalm Codex
Language:
English
