Testament of Youth
of Vera Brittain, Mark Bostridge (Introduction)
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.
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- Format Paperback
- Pages 688 pages
- Publisher Penguin Classics
- Publication Date May 31st 2005
- First Publication 08/28/33
- Language English
- ISBN 9780143039235
- Edition Not informed
- Category Non-Fiction
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