Book returned to library 145 years overdue

$52,000 fine waived after book stolen during Civil War is given back to Virginia university

A book looted from a US library during the American civil war has finally been returned, almost 145 years overdue.

The only stipulation of the Illinois handball coach who returned the title – the first in WFP Napier's four-volume History of the War in the Peninsula and in the South of France – was that he didn't have to pay the $52,858 (£36,000) fine.

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