A week of immense landslides and floods has done more than destroy lives, homes and public works here.

To destroy works that others spent their lives building?

Never prolific, the famously self-critical French composer, who lived from 1865 until 1935, further diminished his legacy by destroying several works.

But the raids are destroying the country's civilian industrial capacity and public works, including its highway, rail and communications networks.

Four warrior-forms crashed through a statue park and destroyed fabulous works.

Their Wardens were given the power to enter any printing premises, destroy illegal works and imprison anyone found manufacturing them.

The next months saw many such raids which harassed the enemy, captured prisoners, and destroyed defensive works.

Its mission was to destroy prepared defensive works, pill boxes, machine gun emplacements and tanks.

Other authors were determined to destroy works they considered flawed, too personal or not up to snuff.