Testament Of Youth
An Autobiographical Study of the Years 1900-1925
Author: Vera Brittain and Shirley Williams Series: Virago classic non-fiction
To mark the centenary of the end of the first world war, Virago reissue an anniversary edition - with a new introduction by Mark Bostridge - of the testament that has become one of the most famous autobiographies of the first world war - much filmed, much studied and much loved.
One of the most famous autobiographies of the First World War - much filmed, much studied and much loved. This classic memoir is now a major motion picture starring Alicia Vikander and Kit Harington.
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To mark the centenary of the end of the first world war, Virago reissue an anniversary edition - with a new introduction by Mark Bostridge - of the testament that has become one of the most famous autobiographies of the first world war - much filmed, much studied and much loved.
One of the most famous autobiographies of the First World War - much filmed, much studied and much loved. This classic memoir is now a major motion picture starring Alicia Vikander and Kit Harington.
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NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE
With an introduction by her biographer, Mark Bostridge'Remains one of the most powerful and widely read war memoirs of all time' GUARDIAN 'Vera Brittain's heart-rending account of the way her generation's lives changed is still as shocking and moving as ever' SUNDAY TELEGRAPH 'A heartbreaking account of the impact of the First World War on a stout-hearted, high-minded young woman' SUNDAY TIMES In 1914 Vera Brittain was twenty, and as war was declared she was preparing to study at Oxford. Four years later her life - and the lives of a whole generation - had changed in a way that was 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 the period; 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.Critic Reviews
“A heartbreaking account of the impact of the First World War on a stout-hearted, high-minded young woman”
Remains one of the most powerful and widely read war memoirs of all time Guardian
Vera Brittain's heart-rending account of the way her generation's lives changed is still as shocking and moving as ever -- Stella Magazine Sunday Telegraph
A heartbreaking account of the impact of the First World War on a stout-hearted, high-minded young woman Sunday Times
Like the much-misunderstood poppy, Testament both memorializes and warns ... to remain uninformed is actually life-threatening Times Literary Supplement
Sublimely moving . . . this is a truly great book . . . should be compulsory reading for the nation's debauched and aimless yobs and yobettes -- Val Hennessy Daily Mail
Essential reading, not just as an anti-war polemic but as a portrait of a whole generation of young people who were totally ill-prepared and whose lives were utterly changed within four momentous years Historical Novels Review
About the Author
Vera Brittain was born in 1893, and grew up in provincial comfort in Macclesfield and Buxton. In 1914, just as war was breaking out, she won an exhibition to Somerville College, Oxford, interrupting her studies the following year to enlist as a VAD nurse. She became one of the best-loved writers of her time with the publication, in 1933, of her passionate record of a lost generation, Testament of Youth. She wrote twenty-nine books in all, and was a prolific lecturer and journalist, who devoted much of her energy to the causes of peace and feminism. Vera Brittain died in 1970. The authorised biography, Vera Brittain: A Life (1995) by Paul Berry and Mark Bostridge is published by Virago Press.
NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE With an introduction by her biographer, Mark Bostridge. 'Remains one of the most powerful and widely read war memoirs of all time' GUARDIAN 'Vera Brittain's heart-rending account of the way her generation's lives changed is still as shocking and moving as ever' STELLA MAGAZINE, SUNDAY TELEGRAPH 'A heartbreaking account of the impact of the First World War on a stout-hearted, high-minded young woman' SUNDAY TIMES In 1914, Vera Brittain was eighteen 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 was 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 the period; 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.
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