Cover of Testament of Youth An unforgettable true story of love and loss in World War I

Testament of Youth An unforgettable true story of love and loss in World War I

by Vera Brittain

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608 pages2009OrionISBN 9780297859147

About this book

<p> <b>NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE </b> <br><br><b>A British woman recalls coming of age during World War I in this unforgettable true story of young love, war, and how to make sense of the darkest times<br></b><br>'Remains one of the most powerful and widely read war memoirs of all time'<br><i><b>Guardian</b></i><br><br>'A haunting elegy for a lost generation'<br><b><i>The Times</i><br><br></b><i>'S</i>hould be compulsory reading'<br><b><i>Daily Mail</i></b><br><br>In 1914 when war was declared, Vera Brittain was twenty, preparing to study at Oxford. Four years later her life - and the lives of her whole generation - had changed in a way that would have been unimaginable.<br><br>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.<br><br>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.<br><br><b>With an afterword from Kate Mosse OBE.</b></p>

Publication Details

Publisher
Orion
Published
2009
Pages
608
ISBN
9780297859147
Language
en

About Vera Brittain

Vera Mary Brittain was a British feminist and pacifist writer with a background in Staffordshire, Cheshire, and Derbyshire (<a href=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vera_Brittain>Wikipedia</a>).

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