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Bibliophiles and bibliothieves : the search for the Hildebrandslied and the Willehalm Codex /

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.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Popa, Opritsa D.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Berlin ; New York : W. de Gruyter, 2003.
Colección:Cultural property studies.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • They've sown the wind and now they reap the whirlwind
  • Habent sua fata libelli
  • Countdown to surrender
  • Protect and respect those symbols
  • Of US safekeepers, Soviet trophy commissars and marauding soldiers
  • Enjoy the war; the peace is going to be terrible!
  • Hope deferred
  • Going, going, gone
  • Belle of the books
  • The professor
  • The Countess of Camarillo
  • Ardelia
  • From the ashes of the Phoenix
  • Return of the wounded warrior
  • Eyewitness
  • Ten years later: proof, proof and more proof
  • To err is human, to admit, divine
  • The owl of Minerva
  • The last, the worst dull spoiler, who was he?