Letters from a Lost Generation: First World War Letters of Vera Brittain and Four Friends: Roland Leighton, Edward Brittain, Victor Richardson, Geoffrey Tharlow
Bostridge, Mark (Ed) & Bostridge, Mark (Ed)
Language: English
Published by Little, Brown & Company, London, UK, 1998
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Includes 4*maps and 17*b/w photographs. xx, 427pp.
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- Title
- Letters from a Lost Generation: First World War Letters of Vera Brittain and Four Friends: Roland Leighton, Edward Brittain, Victor Richardson, Geoffrey Tharlow
- Author
- Bostridge, Mark (Ed) & Bostridge, Mark (Ed)
- Publisher
- Little, Brown & Company, London, UK
- Publication year
- 1998
- Condition
- Very Good
- Dust jacket
- Very Good
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 0316646644
- ISBN 13
- 9780316646642
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Printing
- 4th Printing
- Item weight
- 1,050 grams
- Dimensions
- 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall
- Seller catalogs
- British & Irish History, The First World War
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Letters from a Lost Generation, a collection of previously unpublished correspondence between Brittain and these young men--all public schoolboys at the start of the war--chronicles her relationship with them, and reveals "the old lie," the idealized glory of patriotic duty that was soon overtaken by the grim reality of the Flanders trenches. The letters are lively, dramatic, immediate and, despite the awfulness of war, curiously optimistic: "Somehow I feel the end is not destined to be here and now. We have not fulfilled ourselves--and someday we shall live our roseate poem through," wrote Vera in one of her last letters to Roland in December 1915, just days before he was killed by a sniper's bullet. Following his death, and later those of their mutual friends Victor and Geoffrey, Vera's letters take on a new, raw intensity as she concentrates all her emotions on her brother--a hero awarded the Military Cross--until his death on the Italian Front in June 1918. These letters formed the basis of Vera Brittain's remarkable autobiography, Testament of Youth, and vividly bring to life the voices of the lost generation whose words threaten to be lost forever as the First World War recedes even further from living memory. --Catherine Taylor, Amazon.co.uk
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