Testament Of Youth: An Autobiographical Study of the Years 1900-1925 (Virago classic non-fiction)

Sales Rank: 1794 (Book)
Author: Vera Brittain
Paperback
CatalogNumberList:
EAN: 9780860680352
EANList:
Edition: New Edition with new cover
Feature: New
Feature: Mint Condition
Feature: Dispatch same day for order received before 12 noon
Feature: Guaranteed packaging
Feature: No quibbles returns
ISBN: 0860680355
IsEligibleForTradeIn: 1
Languages:
ListPrice:
Number of Pages: 640
ProductTypeName: ABIS_BOOK
Publication Date: 2004
Publisher: Virago
SKU: mon0000107777
TradeInValue:
by: Shirley Williams (Foreword), Mark Bostridge (Introduction)
Price: £8.09

Buy Testament Of Youth: An Autobiographical Study of the Years 1900-1925 (Virago classic non-fiction) at Amazon

Search:   

Product Description

Brand New Item, Fast Dispatch

Amazon.co.uk Review

In 1914 Vera Brittain was 21 years old, and an undergraduate student at Somerville College, Oxford. When war broke out in August of that year, Brittain "temporarily" disrupted her studies to enrol as a volunteer nurse, nursing casualties both in England and on the Western Front. The next four years were to cause a deep rupture in Brittain's life, as she witnessed not only the horrors of war first hand, but also experienced the quadruple loss of her fiancé, her brother, and two close friends. Testament of Youth is a powerfully written, unsentimental memoir which has continued to move and enthral readers since its first publication in 1933. Brittain, a pacifist since her First World War experiences, prefaces the book with a fairy tale, in which Catherine, the heroine, encounters a fairy godmother and is given the choice of having either a happy youth or a happy old age. She selects the latter and so her fate is determined: "Now this woman," warns the tale, "was the destiny of poor Catherine." And we find as we delve deeper into the book that she was the destiny of poor Vera too.

Customer Reviews of 'Testament Of Youth: An Autobiographical Study of the Years 1900-1925 (Virago classic non-fiction)'

Similar Products of 'Testament Of Youth: An Autobiographical Study of the Years 1900-1925 (Virago classic non-fiction)'