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Book Review of Testament of Youth: An Autobiographical Study of the Years 1900-1925

Testament of Youth: An Autobiographical Study of the Years 1900-1925
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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.