Vera Brittain and the First World War

Vera Brittain and the First World War

Categoria: Beletristică
ISBN: 9781472918574

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Vera Brittain and the First World War tells the remarkable story of the author behind Testament of Youth whilst charting the book's ascent to become one of the most loved memoirs of the First World War period. Such interest is set to expand even more in this centenary year of the war's outbreak. In the midst of her studies at Oxford when war broke out across Europe, Vera Brittain left university in 1915 to become a V.A.D (Voluntary Aid Detachment) nurse, treating soldiers in London, Malta and Etaples in France.

The events of the First World War were to have an enormous impact on her life. Four of Brittain's closest friends including her fianc� Roland Leighton and her brother Edward Brittain MC were killed in action, sparking a lifelong commitment to pacifism. In 1933 she published Testament of Youth, the first of three books dealing with her experience of war.

In equal measures courageous, tragic and deeply fascinating, Testament of Youth is one of the most compelling and important works of war literature e.