'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.