Letters From A Lost Generation First World War Letters Of Vera Brittain And Four Friends
Author: Alan Bishop and Mark Bostridge (eds)
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: 01 January 1999
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: Alan Bishop and Mark Bostridge (eds)
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'Nothing in the papers, not the most vivid and heart-rending descriptions, have made me realise war like your letters' Vera Brittain to Roland Leighton, 17 April 1915.
This selection of letters, written between 1913 & 1918, between Vera Brittain and four young men - her fiance Roland Leighton, her brother Edward and their close friends Victor Richardson & Geoffrey Thurlow present a remarkable and profoundly moving portrait of five young people caught up in the cataclysm of total war. Roland, 'Monseigneur