The Grenfell twins, Francis and Riversdale can perhaps be taken as one
of the finest windows into the so called golden age from 1880 to the
summer of 1914, before the great war ripped Europe apart. Born into the
minor aristocracy and educated at Eton, the boys were gifted scholars
and renowned athletes, they both went on to serve in armed forces and
lose their lives like so many others in the great war. John Buchan has
compiled biographies of the twins, written from personal letters and
from a rare perspective of a man who was called 'The Uncle' by both
Francis and Riversdale. Including a biography of the author.