Testament Of Youth

Author: Vera Brittain

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  • : 29.99 AUD
  • : 9780143039235
  • : Penguin Publishing Group
  • : Penguin USA
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  • : 0.476
  • : April 2005
  • : 196mm X 131mm X 31mm
  • : United States
  • : 30.0
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  • : Vera Brittain
  • : Paperback / softback
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Barcode 9780143039235
9780143039235

Description

Much of what we know and feel about the First World War we owe to Vera Brittain's elegiac yet unsparing book, which set a standard for memoirists from Martha Gellhorn to Lillian Hellman. Abandoning her studies at Oxford in 1915 to enlist as a nurse in the armed services, Brittain served in London, in Malta, and on the Western Front. By war's end she had lost virtually everyone she loved. Testament of Youth is both a record of what she lived through and an elegy for a vanished generation. Hailed by the Times Literary Supplement as a book that helped "both form and define the mood of its time," it speaks to any generation that has been irrevocably changed by war. * New introduction by Brittain's biographer examines her struggles to write about her experiences and the book's reception in England and America