Baedeker is back

[Henry]

"As well as helping thousands of well-to-do travellers brave the perils of abroad, the Baedeker guide has achieved a cultural resonance that is rare for what is essentially a practical manual. EM Forster made entertaining use of the Baedeker in his 1908 novel A Room With a View, and the American writer Thomas Pynchon has written of how he would 'loot the Baedeker' in order to get "all the details of a time and place I had never been to." On a more sinister note, in 1942 Exeter, Bath, Norwich, York and Canterbury were all blitzed in what have become known as the 'Baedeker Raids' - a reference to the words of the Nazi firebrand Baron Gustav von Sturm, who reputedly declared 'We shall go all out to bomb every building in Britain marked with three stars in the Baedeker guide.' The following year, Allied bombers destroyed the company's headquarters and archives in Leipzig.

From: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/travel/main.jhtml?xml=/travel/2007/12/22/et-baedecker-122.xml 

HENRY MU http://www.urdomain.us/scuffling.htm (KCUF is off the air until I pay my bills on Monday)
Information, Media, and Technology Consultant

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