Testament of Youth

Testament of Youth

by Vera Brittain
Testament of Youth

Testament of Youth

by Vera Brittain

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'A haunting elegy for a lost generation' THE TIMES

This classic memoir of the First World War - including an afterword by Kate Mosse OBE.

'Sublimely moving... this is a truly great book' DAILY MAIL

'A heartbreaking account of the impact of the First World War' SUNDAY TIMES

'Vera Brittain's heart-rending account of the way her generation's lives changed is still as shocking and moving as ever' SUNDAY TELEGRAPH STELLA MAGAZINE

In 1914 Vera Brittain was 20, and as war was declared she was preparing to study at Oxford. Four years later her life - and the life of her whole generation - had changed in a way that would have been unimaginable in the tranquil pre-war era.

TESTAMENT OF YOUTH, one of the most famous autobiographies of the First World War, is Brittain's account of how she survived those agonising years; how she lost the man she loved; how she nursed the wounded and how she emerged into an altered world. A passionate record of a lost generation, it made Vera Brittain one of the best-loved writers of her time, and has lost none of its power to shock, move and enthral readers since its first publication in 1933.


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780297859147
Publisher: Orion
Publication date: 07/16/2009
Sold by: Hachette Digital, Inc.
Format: eBook
Sales rank: 106,566
File size: 2 MB

About the Author

Born in 1893, Vera Brittain won an exhibition to Somerville College, Oxford, in 1914, but a year later abandoned her studies to enlist as a VAD nurse. She served throughout the war, working in London, Malta and close to the Front in France. At the end of the war, with all of those closest to her dead, she returned to Oxford.

Vera Brittain was a convinced pacifist, a prolific speaker, lecturer, journalist and writer, she devoted much of her energy to the causes of peace and feminism. She wrote 29 books in all, novels, poetry, biography and autobiography, but it was TESTAMENT OF YOUTH which established her reputation and made her one of the best-loved writers of her time. She died in 1970.

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