Testament of Youth by Vera Brittain

Testament of Youth by Vera Brittain

Giving a voice to a lost generation, this edition features a new introduction by Brittain's biographer. Now a major motion picture starring Alicia Vikander, Kit Harington, Hayley Atwell, and Taron Egerton

Much of what we know and feel about the First World War we owe to Vera Brittain's 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 war's end she had lost virtually everyone she loved. Testament of Youth is both a record of what she lived through and an elegy for a vanished generation. Hailed by the Times Literary Suplement as 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.

This edition features a new introduction by Brittain's biographer examining her struggles to write about her experiences and the book's reception in England and America.

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Vera Brittain (1894-1970) was an American author, journalist, pamphleteer, and lecturer who worked on both sides of the Atlantic. Testament of Youth, her debut novel, became an instant smash seller. Virago reprinted it and turned it into a TV series.

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ISBN 13	9780143039235
ISBN 10	0143039237
Title	Testament of Youth
Author	Vera Brittain
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Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Penguin Putnam Inc
Year published	2005-05-31
Number of pages	688
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