Testament Of Youth
An Autobiographical Study of the Years 1900-1925
Format:Paperback
Publisher:Little, Brown Book Group
Publishing:22nd Jan '26
£14.99
This title is due to be published on 22nd January, and will be despatched as soon as possible.
'Remains one of the most powerful and widely read war memoirs of all time' GUARDIAN
'Vera Brittain's heart-rending account of the way her generation's lives changed is still as shocking and moving as ever' SUNDAY TELEGRAPH
'A heartbreaking account of the impact of the First World War on a stout-hearted, high-minded young woman' SUNDAY TIMES
What you have striven for will not end in nothing, all that you have done and been will not be wasted, for it will be a part of me as long as I live, and I shall remember, always.
In 1914 Vera Brittain was twenty, and as war was declared she was preparing to study at Oxford. Four years later her life - and the lives of a whole generation - had been unimaginably changed.
One of the most famous autobiographies of the First World War, this is her account of how she survived the period; how she lost the man she loved; how she nursed the wounded; and how she emerged into an altered world to become one of the best-loved writers of her time.
Remains one of the most powerful and widely read war memoirs of all time * Guardian *
Vera Brittain's heart-rending account of the way her generation's lives changed is still as shocking and moving as ever * Sunday Telegraph *
A heartbreaking account of the impact of the First World War on a stout-hearted, high-minded young woman * Sunday Times *
Like the much-misunderstood poppy, Testament both memorializes and warns ... to remain uninformed is actually life-threatening * Times Literary Supplement *
Sublimely moving . . . this is a truly great book . . . should be compulsory reading for the nation's debauched and aimless yobs and yobettes * Daily Mail *
Essential reading, not just as an anti-war polemic but as a portrait of a whole generation of young people who were totally ill-prepared and whose lives were utterly changed within four momentous years * Historical Novels Review *
Its raw emotional truth populated my understanding of history with real human beings -- Beatriz Williams, a.k.a.Juliana Gray * The Week *
ISBN: 9780349020891
Dimensions: 198mm x 126mm x 22mm
Weight: unknown
640 pages