None that go return
Subtitle: Leighton, Brittain and friends, and the lost generation, 1914-1918
By: Don Farr
Publisher: Helion
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Solihull
Language: eng
Number of pages: 232
ISBN-13: 9781906033835
Subjects: World War, 1914-1918; Campaigns; Soldiers; Biography; Military campaigns
Description: "Roland Leighton, Edward Brittain, Victor Richardson and Geoffrey Thurlow, the four subjects of this book are, for their social class and generation, not untypical examples of the consequences of the world turned upside down. In the summer of 1914 they were all on the threshold of Oxbridge careers, and looking forward, with greater or lesser enthusiasm, to working lives in one of the professions with the youthful hope that they might break the mould and end up doing something out of the ordinary. Instead, caught up in the patriotic fervours of war fever, all thoughts of university were put to one side by three of them as they applied themselves to getting army commisions so as not to miss out on a war popularly expected to be over by Christmas ... Two of them reached the Front in 1915 ... and the other two in 1916. As junior infantry officers in the conditions of trench warfare, as it had evolved in the early months of the war, their chances of survival were not high"--Introduction.
Table of contents: title: pt. 1. Early days. Roland Leighton; title: Edward Brittain; title: Victor Richardson and Geoffrey Thurlow; title: Uppingham, Chigwell and the public school ethos; title: pt. 2. War and death. To the front; title: Roland Leighton's war : August 1914-December 1915; title: Geoffrey Thurlow and Edward Brittain : December 1915-July 1916; title: English interlude : July-October 1916; title: Victor Richardson's and Geoffrey Thurlow's war : September 1916-May 1917; title: England : November 1916-June 1917; title: Edward Brittain's war : France and Flanders : June-November 1917; title: Edward Brittain's war : Italy : November 1917-June 1918; title: pt. 3. Conclusions. 'The lost generation'; title: Envoi.