Vera Brittain by Paul Berry
Vere Britain (1893-1970) is most vividly remembered for one of the best loved autobiographies of the Great War, TESTAMENT OF YOUTH. Written with the co-operation of her daughter Shirley Williams, this candid biography draws on unpublished letters and reminiscences to illuminate the life and personality of a courageous and complex woman whose views on war and marriage were ahead of her time. It reveals new facts about ill-fated engagement with Robert Leighton and about the circumstances of her brother's death in Italy; about her semi-detached marriage with George Caitlin, her close friendship with the novelist Winifred Holtby and a passionate entanglement with her New York publisher. Her uncompromising pacifism in WWII led to her condemnation of the Allies saturation bombing of Germany, and to her being considered a dangerous subversive, refused a visa her children in the USA where they had been evacuated. A brilliant portrait which takes us from the idealistic girl to the ambitious and combative survivor of two years and ultimatley to the older woman of disarming honesty and integrity.
Paul Berry was Vera Brittain's close friend for twenty-eight years and is her Literary Executor. He is the joint editor of Testament of Generation: The Journalism of Vera Brittain and Winifred Holtby. He lives in Sussex. Mark Bostridge was educated at Westminster School and Oxford University, where he won the Gladstone Memorial Prize. A former research assistant to Shirley Williams, he has reviewed for The Times Literary Supplement, The Times Educational Supplement and the Literay Review. He currently works for BBC Television and lives in Richmond, Surrey.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780712673150 |
| ISBN 10 | 0712673156 |
| Titel | Vera Brittain |
| Autor | Paul Berry |
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| Bindungsart | Paperback |
| Verlag | Vintage Publishing |
| Erscheinungsjahr | 1996-08-01 |
| Seitenanzahl | 592 |
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