"How simple-minded of the Germans to imagine that we British could be cowed by the destruction of our ancient monuments! As though any havoc of the German bombs could possibly equal the things we have done ourselves!"
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Referring to the Baedeker Blitz: a series of German air raids on English cities of historic and architectural interest.
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Osbert Sitwell
Sir Francis Osbert Sacheverell Sitwell, Bt. (6 December 1892 – 4 May 1969) was an English poet, novelist, memoirist and controversialist on behalf of the arts. Osbert Sitwell, his brother Sacheverell and his sister Edith were among the most conspicuous figures in the British artistic world of the 1920s and 1930s.
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