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The Lost Generation: 1883-1900
By Martin Foskett, Reporter
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The Lost Generation: 1883-1900
Born into the Victorian world. Destined to witness its destruction.
History has a peculiar habit of remembering the men who gave the orders while forgetting those who paid the bill.
The generals get statues. The politicians get biographies. Ordinary people get a name carved into a village memorial, provided someone remembered to spell it correctly.
The Lost Generation: 1883-1900, by Martin Foskett, goes beyond the familiar parade of kings, commanders, and grand political declarations to explore the generation born at the end of the nineteenth century, whose lives were shaped by industrial expansion, social upheaval, and the catastrophe of the First World War.
A generation caught between two worlds
They arrived in an age of steam engines, smoking factory chimneys, imperial ambition and Victorian respectability.
Electricity was transforming daily life. Cities were swelling. Industry promised prosperity. Scientific progress suggested that civilisation was heading towards something altogether grander.
Then came 1914.
The machinery that had promised humanity a glorious future demonstrated an equally impressive talent for destroying it.
A generation raised amid the certainties of the nineteenth century found itself confronting mechanised warfare, political revolution and the collapse of institutions that had once appeared permanent.
For millions, the modern world did not arrive as a triumphal procession.
It arrived wearing boots.
The lives behind the history books
Blending narrative history with irreverent, Gonzo-inspired observation, Martin Foskett examines the lives of those who experienced one of history’s most dramatic transitions.
The book explores a world of industrial labour, shifting social expectations, spiritual movements, political agitation and the profound human consequences of war.
This is not simply another account of famous battles or celebrated statesmen.
It explores the people who lived beneath the headlines, whose ambitions, labour, sacrifices, and private tragedies helped shape the world that followed.
Some survived to witness extraordinary change. Others disappeared into the industrial and military machinery of their age.
The official histories continued regardless.
History remembers the powerful. This book remembers the generation.
The Lost Generation: 1883-1900 offers an atmospheric, thoughtful and occasionally irreverent examination of a generation whose experiences helped define the twentieth century.
For readers interested in social history, the First World War, industrialisation, political transformation and the human stories behind historical events, it provides a distinctive perspective on a world in transition.
The nineteenth century had promised progress.
The twentieth arrived with a rather different set of instructions.
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Book details
- Title: The Lost Generation: 1883-1900
- Author: Martin Foskett
- Publisher: Knelstrom Ltd
- Publication: July 2025
- Genre: Social history / Historical nonfiction
- Paperback ISBN: 9798231485529
- eBook ISBN: 9798231419265
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