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 across both an ocean and a continent: the pilfering from a cellar in Bad Wildungen of the ninth-century Liber Sapientiae, containing the two leaves of the oldest extant German heroic poem, the Old High German Hildebrandslied, along with the fourteenth-century illuminated ...
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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 across both an ocean and a continent: the pilfering from a cellar in Bad Wildungen of the ninth-century Liber Sapientiae, containing the two leaves of the oldest extant German heroic poem, the Old High German Hildebrandslied, along with the fourteenth-century illuminated Willehalm codex, both of which had been removed from the State Library in Kassel for protection from bombing raids.
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New. 3110177307. *** FREE UPGRADE to Courier/Priority Shipping Upon Request *** – – *** IN STOCK AND IMMEDIATELY AVAILABLE FOR SHIPMENT-FLAWLESS COPY, PRISTINE, NEVER OPENED--In English23 x 15.5 cm. XVI, 265 pages. 33 fig. --DESCRIPTION: 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 across both an ocean and a continent: the pilfering from a cellar in Bad Wildungen of the ninth-century Liber Sapientiae, containing the two leaves of the oldest extant German heroic poem, the Old High German Hildebrandslied, along with the fourteenth-century illuminated Willehalm codex, both of which had been removed from the State Library in Kassel for protection from bombing raids. --Reviews: "Anders als bei fast allen geschichtswissenschaftlichen Abhandlungen und Lehrbüchern hat die Autorin die glückliche Fähigkeit, bei gleichzeitig an Perfektionismus grenzender Gründlichkeit der Recherchen, in einer oft poetischen Sprache Geschichte lebendig und bunt darzustellen."-Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung--"Frau Popa gelingt es, ein komplexes Thema in einem herrlich idiomatischen Englisch, leicht verständlich und facettenreich, dabei nicht nur absolut kenntnisreich, sondern auch spannend, stets zu beherrschen."-Axel Halle in: Bibliothek 3/2004--with a bonus offer--
