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==Terminology== The first named generation, the term "Lost Generation" is used for the young people who came of age around the time of [[World War I]]. In Europe, they are mostly known as the "Generation of 1914", for the year World War I began. In France, they were sometimes called the ''Génération du feu'', the "(gun)fire generation". In the United Kingdom, the term was originally used for those who died in the war,{{r|aftermath}} and often implicitly referred to upper-class casualties who were perceived to have died disproportionately, robbing the country of a future elite.{{r|winter}} Many felt that "the flower of youth and the best manhood of the peoples [had] been mowed down",<ref>{{Cite journal |last1=Zetkin |first1=Clara |last2=Luxemburg |first2=Rosa |last3=Liebknecht |first3=Karl |last4=Mehring |first4=Franz |date=8 March 1919 |title=A Spartacan Manifesto |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=tVo5AQAAMAAJ&pg=PA374 |journal=The Nation |language=en |publisher=J.H. Richards |volume=108 |pages=373–374 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210205142648/https://books.google.com/books?id=tVo5AQAAMAAJ&pg=PA374 |archive-date=5 February 2021 |number=2801}}</ref> for example, such notable casualties as the poets [[Isaac Rosenberg]], [[Rupert Brooke]], [[Edward Thomas (poet)|Edward Thomas]], and [[Wilfred Owen]],{{r|bbc}} composer [[George Butterworth]], and physicist [[Henry Moseley]].
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