Book
Testament of Youth
- Published
- 1933
- Genre
- History
- Publisher
- Fontana Paperbacks
- Pages
- 661
- URL
- https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/374388.Testament_of_Youth?ac=1&from_search=true
Reading measures
- Suggested reading age
- ages 16–18
- Ambleside year
- Year 11 onwards · ages 16–19
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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.
ISBN
- ISBN-13
- 9780006357032
- ISBN-10
- 0006357032
Tags
MedicineNursesWarWWI