Testament of Youth

Name: Testament of Youth
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ISBN: 9780143039235

ISBN-10: 0143039237

ISBN-13: 9780143039235

Edition: 2005

Authors: Vera Brittain, Mark Bostridge, Shirley Williams

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Much of what we know and feel about the First World War we owe to Vera Brittains elegiac yet unsparing book, which set a standard for memoirists from Martha Gellhorn to Lillian Hellman. Abandoning her studies at Oxford in 1915 to enlist as a nurse in the armed services, Brittain served in London, in Malta, and on the Western Front. By wars end she had lost virtually everyone she loved. Testament of Youthis both a record of what she lived through and an elegy for a vanished generation. Hailed by the Times Literary Supplementas a book that helped both form and define the mood of its time, it speaks to any generation that has been irrevocably changed by war.

Book details

List price: $22.00
Copyright year: 2005
Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group
Publication date: 5/31/2005
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 688
Size: 5.05" wide x 7.70" long x 1.20" tall
Weight: 1.056
Language: English

Mark Bostridge's books include Vera Brittain: A Life, shortlisted for the Whitbread Biography Prize, the NCR Award for Non-Fiction and the Fawcett Prize, the bestselling Letters from a Lost Generation, Florence Nightingale. The Woman and Her Legend, awarded the Elizabeth Longford Prize for Historical Biography, and The Fateful Year. England 1914.