Testament Of Youth
An Autobiographical Study Of The Years 1900-1925
Brittain, Vera
Bostridge, Mark (INT)
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BOOK SYNOPSIS
Much of what we know and feel about the First World War we owe to Vera Brittains 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 wars 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.
AUTHOR BIO
Vera Brittain (18931970) served as a nurse in the British armed forces in World War I and afterward devoted herself to the causes of peace and feminism. She wrote twenty-nine books, of which Testament of Youth is the best-known. Mark Bostridge is a biographer and literary critic who lives in London.
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MORE BOOK INFO
ISBN: 0143039237
ISBN(13-digit): 9780143039235
Copyright: 2005
Dewey Decimal: 828/.91209
Library of Congress: 2005276150
Book Publisher: Penguin Group USA
Language: ENG
No. of Pages: 661
Paper Weight (lb): 1.05 lb
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