Letters From A Lost Generation
First World War Letters of Vera Brittain and Four Friends
$43.01
- Paperback
448 pages
- Release Date
1 January 2009
Summary
‘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 and 1918, between Vera Brittain and four young men - her fiance Roland Leighton, her brother Edward and their close friends Victor Richardson and Geoffrey Thurlow present a remarkable and profoundly moving portrait of five young people caught up in the cataclysm of total w…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781844085705 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1844085708 |
| Author: | Mark Bostridge, Alan Bishop |
| Publisher: | Little, Brown Book Group |
| Imprint: | Virago Press Ltd |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 448 |
| Release Date: | 1 January 2009 |
| Weight: | 317g |
| Dimensions: | 199mm x 157mm x 29mm |
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Unique…a remarkable portrait of five young people caught up in the cataclysm of war - INDEPENDENT ON SUNDAY
Immensely moving…As the first world war slips out of living memory, this is a timely reminder of what was lost - and how we lost it - SUNDAY TIMESTouching, angry, bewildered…they demand to be read - MAIL ON SUNDAYBeautifully edited and with excellent notes. - TLSAbout The Author
Mark Bostridge
Mark Bostridge is the co-author of Vera Brittain: A Life (Chatto & Windus 1995), which was shortlisted for several prizes.
Alan Bishop is Professor of English at McMaster University in Ontario and has edited three volumes of Vera Brittain’s diaries.
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