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Testament of Youth: An Autobiographical Study of the Years 1900-1925
Testament of Youth An Autobiographical Study of the Years 19001925
Author: Vera Brittain
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...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780140188448
ISBN-10: 0140188444
Publication Date: 9/1/1994
Pages: 672
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Publisher: Penguin Classics
Book Type: Paperback
Other Versions: Hardcover
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This incredibly dense memoir of a young Englishwoman coming of age during World War I moves along briskly, if lugubriously, through Brittain's fight to obtain a college education, interrupted by the war and devastating personal losses, but really bogs down in the post-war section.


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