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Testament of Youth

An Autobiographical Study of the Years 1900-1925

By Vera Brittain, Shirley Williams (Preface)

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| Paperback | 9780860680352

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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 yeContinue

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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  • Anthem for doomed youth

    In 1919 Vera Brittain was shattered to discover that her slightly younger fellow-students at Somerville College, Oxford found her memories of the War (she always gave it a capital letter) boring. She had lost her brother and his three best friends, o ... (read full critics)

    guardian.co.uk published on Fri, 24 Sep 2010

  • RETRO READS

    Comments ( -) Add to My Stories TESTAMENT OF YOUTH BY VERA BRITTAIN (Weidenfeld £30) 'Oh my love! ... Just to be shot like a rat in the dark!' So wrote 21-year-old Brittain of her fiance, one of the thousands slaughtered in the trenches. In 1914 she ... (read full critics)

    dailymail published on Tue, 21 Sep 2010

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