Letters from a Lost Generation The First World War Letters of Vera Brittain and Four Friends, Roland Leighton, Edward Brittain, Victor Richardson, Geoffrey Thurlow

'Nothing in the papers, not the most vivid and heart-rendering descriptions, have made me realise war like your letters' Vera Britain to her fiance, Roland Leighton, 17 April 1915Letters from a Lost Generation is a memorable selection of letters, written during the First World War, between Vera Britain and four young men - her fiance Roland Leighton, her younger brother Edward and their two close friends Victor Richardson and Geoffrey Thurlow - all of whom were killed in this war.