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Gerald Howard-Smith and the 'Lost Generation' of Late Victorian and Edwardian England (Hardcover)
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Gerald Howard-Smith and the 'Lost Generation' of Late Victorian and Edwardian England (Hardcover)
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Gerald Howard-Smith's life is intriguing both in its own right and
as a vehicle for exploring the world in which he lived. Tall,
boisterous and sometimes rather irascible, he was one of the
so-called 'Lost Generation' whose lives were cut short by the First
World War. Brought up in London, and educated at Eton and
Cambridge, he excelled both at cricket and athletics. After
qualifying as a solicitor he moved to Wolverhampton and threw
himself into the local sporting scene, making a considerable name
for himself in the years before the First World War. Volunteering
for military service in 1914, he was decorated for bravery before
being killed in action two years later. Reporting his death, the
War History of the South Staffordshire Regiment claimed that, 'In
his men's eyes he lived as a loose-limbed hero, and in him they
lost a very humorous and a very gallant gentleman.' As well as
telling the fascinating story of Gerald Howard-Smith for the first
time, this important new biography explores such complex and
important issues as childhood and adolescence, class relations,
sporting achievement, manliness and masculinity,
metropolitan-provincial relationships, and forms of commemoration.
It will therefore be of interest to educationalists, sports
historians, local and regional historians, and those interested in
class, gender and civilian-military relations - indeed all those
seeking to understand the economic, social, and cultural life of
late nineteenth and early twentieth-century Britain.
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