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Testament of Youth: An Autobiographical Study of the Years 1900-1925 (Penguin Twentieth Century Classics S.)
In 1915 Vera Brittain abandoned her studies at Oxford to enlist as a nurse in the armed services. She served in a number of World War theatres - in London, Malta and at the western front in France. By the war's end, all those close to her were dead, and she had witnessed the results of modern combat, the destruction and the suffering. Focusing on the men and women who came of age as the war broke out, Brittain explores their politics, hopes and the fatal idealism.
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In 1914 Vera Brittain was 21 years old, and an undergraduate student at Somerville College, Oxford. When war broke out in August of that year, Brittain "temporarily" disrupted her studies to enrol as a volunteer nurse, nursing casualties both in England and on the Western Front. The next four years were to cause a deep rupture in Brittain's life, as she witnessed not only the horrors of war first hand, but also experienced the quadruple loss of her fiancé, her brother, and two close friends. Testament of Youth is a powerfully written, unsentimental memoir which has continued to move and enthral readers since its first publication in 1933. Brittain, a pacifist since her First World War experiences, prefaces the book with a fairy tale, in which Catherine, the heroine, encounters a fairy godmother and is given the choice of having either a happy youth or a happy old age. She selects the latter and so her fate is determined: "Now this woman," warns the tale, "was the destiny of poor Catherine." And we find as we delve deeper into the book that she was the destiny of poor Vera too.
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"["Testament of Youth"]""remains one of the most powerful and widely read war memoirs of all time." --"The Guardian" (London)
["Testament of Youth"]" "remains one of the most powerful and widely read war memoirs of all time. "The Guardian" (London)"
[Testament of Youth] remains one of the most powerful and widely read war memoirs of all time. The Guardian (London)"
"[Testament of Youth] remains one of the most powerful and widely read war memoirs of all time." --The Guardian (London)
["Testament of Youth"]" "remains one of the most powerful and widely read war memoirs of all time. "The Guardian" (London)"
[Testament of Youth] remains one of the most powerful and widely read war memoirs of all time. The Guardian (London)"
"[Testament of Youth] remains one of the most powerful and widely read war memoirs of all time." --The Guardian (London)
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- PublisherPenguin Classics
- Publication date1995
- ISBN 10 0140861599
- ISBN 13 9780140861594
- BindingAudio Cassette
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