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.
Publisher: Little,Brown Book GroupISBN: 9780349010274Number of pages: 640Weight: 508 gDimensions: 203 x 139 x 41 mm
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Remains one of the most powerful and widely read war memoirs of all timeVera Brittain's heart-rending account of the way her generation's lives changed is still as shocking and moving as everA heartbreaking account of the impact of the First World War on a stout-hearted,high-minded young womanLike the much-misunderstood poppy,Testament both memorializes and warns...to remain uninformed is actually life-threateningSublimely moving...this is a truly great book...should be compulsory reading for the nation's debauched and aimless yobs and yobettesEssential 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
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