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Giles Lytton Strachey (1 March 1880 – 21 January 1932) was an English biographer, critic and leading light of the Bloomsbury group. He is seen by some as the founder of the modern "debunking" school of biography.
See Martin Ceadel, Pacifism in Britain:The Defining of a Faith. Oxford University Press, 1980 (p. 45) and Holroyd, Michael (1967). Lytton Strachey: A Critical Biography, 2 vols., London (vol.I, p. 416). The actual quote, in a slightly different form, was said by H. W Garrod: " Madam, I am the civilization they are fighting to defend".See Bartlett's Book of Anecdotes, eds. Clifton Fadiman & André Bernard (1985; Little, Brown & Co., 2000), (p. 228).
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