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Testament of youth, an autobiographical study of the years 1900-1925, Vera Brittain ; with a new introduction by Mark Bostridge ; and a preface by Shirley Williams

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Testament of youth, an autobiographical study of the years 1900-1925, Vera Brittain ; with a new introduction by Mark Bostridge ; and a preface by Shirley Williams

Language

eng

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Includes bibliographical references

resource.biographical

autobiography

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illustrationsplates

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no index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Testament of youth

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bibliography

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Vera Brittain ; with a new introduction by Mark Bostridge ; and a preface by Shirley Williams

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an autobiographical study of the years 1900-1925

Summary

In 1914 Vera Brittain was eighteen and, as war was declared, she was preparing to study at Oxford. Four years later her life - and the life of her whole generation - had changed in a way that was unimaginable in the tranquil pre-war era. This book, one of the most famous autobiographies of the First World War, is Brittain's 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. A passionate record of a lost generation, it made Vera Brittain one of the best-loved writers of her time

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