Testament of Youth

Informationen zum Autor Vera Brittain (1893-1970) grew up in the north of England. At the end of the war she moved to Oxford where she met Winifred Holtby! author of SOUTH RIDING. Klappentext Unique and unforgettable record of one woman's experiences during the First World War. This passionate documentation of a lost generation now appears in a new edition. * A unique record of one woman's experience of twenty-five of the most cataclysmic years in modern history - and a Virago Classic bestseller - with a new introduction by Mark Bostridge Zusammenfassung In 1914 Vera Brittain was eighteen and! as war was declared! she was preparing to study at Oxford. Four years later her life - and the life of her 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.

Product details

• Authors: Vera Brittain
• Assisted by: Shirley Williams (Foreword)
• Publisher: Virago Press Ltd
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 20.04.1978
• EAN: 9780860680352
• ISBN: 978-0-86068-035-2
• No. of pages: 640
• Dimensions: 131 mm x 195 mm x 42 mm
• Series: Virago Modern Classics; Virago classic non-fiction; Virago Modern Classics; Virago classic non-fiction
• Subject: Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Biographies, autobiographies