To Our Brothers: Memorials to a Lost Generation in British Schools

by Sarah Wearne and James Kerr

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To Our Brothers: Memorials to a Lost Generation British Schools shows how a nation not noted for its ability to express emotion, in fact famous for its stiff upper lip, managed to convey its grief, love and pride for some of the thousands of its young men who were killed during the First World War.

Schools had a peculiarly intense relationship with their dead, especially boarding schools. Most of them were much smaller than they are today, pupils spent more time there, there were fewer exeats and some boys, whose parents lived abroad, even remained at school during...Read more
  • ISBN10 1911628259
  • ISBN13 9781911628255
  • Publish Date 15 November 2018
  • Publish Status Active
  • Publish Country GB
  • Imprint Helion & Company
  • Format Hardcover
  • Pages 216
  • Language English