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Chapter 3: Countdown to Surrender

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Bibliophiles and Bibliothieves
This chapter is in the book Bibliophiles and Bibliothieves

Chapters in this book

  1. Frontmatter I
  2. Preface VII
  3. Contents XI
  4. List of Illustrations and Captions XIII
  5. Introduction and Acknowledgments 1
  6. Liber Sapientiae and Willehalm Codex, 1939-2002 - A Chronology 5
  7. Chapter 1: “They’ve sown the wind and now they reap the whirlwind” 9
  8. Chapter 2: “Habent Sua Fata Libelli” - Books Have Their Own Destiny 23
  9. Chapter 3: Countdown to Surrender 38
  10. Chapter 4: “Protect and Respect These Symbols...” 47
  11. Chapter 5: Of US Safekeepers, Soviet Trophy Commissars and Marauding Allied Soldiers 55
  12. Chapter 6: “Enjoy the War, the Peace Is Going to be Terrible!” 67
  13. Chapter 7: Hope Deferred 78
  14. Chapter 8: Going, Going, Gone! 84
  15. Chapter 9: “Belle of the Books” 96
  16. Chapter 10: The Professor 111
  17. Chapter 11: The Countess of Camarillo 119
  18. Chapter 12: Ardelia 127
  19. Chapter 13: From the Ashes of the Phoenix 147
  20. Chapter 14: Return of the Wounded Warrior 158
  21. Chapter 15: Eyewitness 166
  22. Chapter 16: Ten Years Later... Proof, Proof and More Proof 173
  23. Chapter 17: To Err is Human, to Admit, Divine 187
  24. Chapter 18 : The Owl of Minerva 198
  25. Chapter 19: “The Last, the Worst, Dull Spoiler, Who Was He?” 207
  26. Appendix 223
https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110201901-007

Chapters in this book

  1. Frontmatter I
  2. Preface VII
  3. Contents XI
  4. List of Illustrations and Captions XIII
  5. Introduction and Acknowledgments 1
  6. Liber Sapientiae and Willehalm Codex, 1939-2002 - A Chronology 5
  7. Chapter 1: “They’ve sown the wind and now they reap the whirlwind” 9
  8. Chapter 2: “Habent Sua Fata Libelli” - Books Have Their Own Destiny 23
  9. Chapter 3: Countdown to Surrender 38
  10. Chapter 4: “Protect and Respect These Symbols...” 47
  11. Chapter 5: Of US Safekeepers, Soviet Trophy Commissars and Marauding Allied Soldiers 55
  12. Chapter 6: “Enjoy the War, the Peace Is Going to be Terrible!” 67
  13. Chapter 7: Hope Deferred 78
  14. Chapter 8: Going, Going, Gone! 84
  15. Chapter 9: “Belle of the Books” 96
  16. Chapter 10: The Professor 111
  17. Chapter 11: The Countess of Camarillo 119
  18. Chapter 12: Ardelia 127
  19. Chapter 13: From the Ashes of the Phoenix 147
  20. Chapter 14: Return of the Wounded Warrior 158
  21. Chapter 15: Eyewitness 166
  22. Chapter 16: Ten Years Later... Proof, Proof and More Proof 173
  23. Chapter 17: To Err is Human, to Admit, Divine 187
  24. Chapter 18 : The Owl of Minerva 198
  25. Chapter 19: “The Last, the Worst, Dull Spoiler, Who Was He?” 207
  26. Appendix 223
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