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Baedeker|ˈbeɪdɪkə(r)|
Any of the series of guide-books issued by Karl Baedeker (1801–59) at Coblenz, or by his successors; also applied loosely to any guide-book. Also fig.
1863Miss Jemima's Swiss Jrnl. 29 June (1963) ii. 23 We followed the advice of our faithful Baedeker. 1889G. B. Shaw London Music 1888–89 (1937) 180 Glancing through Baedeker as I bowl along Bayreuthwards I perceive [etc.]. 1920T. S. Eliot Ara Vos Prec. 14 Burbank with a Baedeker. 1935Chambers's Encycl. I. 659/2 In the 20th century ‘Baedeker’ had become a synonym for guidebook, and there are Baedekers not merely for the principal European countries, but for Palestine and Syria [etc.]. 1948Landfall II. 58 There was no place in their ample kits for a Baedeker or a book of poetry. 1959Listener 30 Apr. 767/1 Balzac et son Monde is an indispensable Baedeker to the Comédie Humaine.
b. Hence Baedeker raid, one of a series of raids by the German Air Force in April and May of 1942 upon places of cultural and historical importance in Britain.
1942Daily Mail 1 May 4/7 The ‘Baedėker’ raids have put the Luftwaffe in a grave dilemma. 1942War Illustr. 29 May 705 York's Guildhall as it appeared on the night of April 28 after it had been struck by incendiaries in one of Hitler's ‘Baedeker raids’ on Britain's cultural heritage. After the legitimate R.A.F. raids on Rostock, where the Heinkel factory and other munition works were destroyed, German officials frankly stated that the Luftwaffe would go out for every building in Britain which is marked with three stars in Baedeker's guide-books. |