Bibliophiles and bibliothieves : the search for the Hildebrandslied and the Willehalm Codex / Opritsa D. Popa ; with a preface by Winder McConnell.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 241-254) and index.

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?