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.
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Berlin ; New York :
W. de Gruyter,
2003.
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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?