A beautiful gift edition of this classic memoir of the First World War. Will contain a foreword by Kate Mosse OBE.
Born in 1893, Vera Brittain won an exhibition to Somerville College, Oxford, in 1914, but a year later abandoned her studies to enlist as a VAD nurse. She served throughout the war, working in London, Malta and close to the Front in France. At the end of the war, with all of those closest to her dead, she returned to Oxford. Vera Brittain was a convinced pacifist, a prolific speaker, lecturer, journalist and writer, she devoted much of her energy to the causes of peace and feminism. She wrote 29 books in all, novels, poetry, biography and autobiography, but it was TESTAMENT OF YOUTH which established her reputation and made her one of the best-loved writers of her time. She died in 1970.
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*
Like the much-misunderstood poppy, Testament both memorializes and
warns... to remain uninformed is actually life-threatening.
*TLS*
it was a surprise to pick her book up now and discover how very
good it is.
*The Guardian*
sublimely moving... this is a truly great book... should be
compulsory reading for the nation's debauched and aimless yobs and
yobettes
*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*
brilliantly captures the protracted horrors of a war into which her
generation was preciptated unprepared... as a personal and social
document of its turbulent times, written from the viewpoint of a
serious and reflective young woman, this autobiographical work
fully merits rediscovery.
*CATHOLIC HERALD*
Everyone should read this book. Like all true classics, it has
something to tell us all, one generation after another. And this
handsome new edition benefits from photographic illustrations and
an elegant preface by Shirley Williams, Vera Brittain's
distinguished daughter. If you have tears, prepare to share them
now.
*TRIBUNE*
A heartbreaking account of the impact of the First World War on a
stout-hearted, high-minded young woman
*THE SUNDAY TIMES '100 Biographies to Love'*
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