Laurents presents the reader with a new approach to understanding a British upper class whose sense of self and collective identity was exposed to the trauma ofWorldWar I. This approach is illuminating, intellectually stimulating, and offers huge possibilities for future research. It is to be commended for opening up a new sociohistorical framework utilizing identity theory and social identity theory. This approach allows for a much deeper reading of the disillusion, alienation, rebelliousness, marginalization, and separation felt by individuals who rejected a collective upper-class identity as it existed before the war.