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Available on STARZ, Philo, Prime Video, Hulu, Sling TV. Testament of Youth is a powerful story of love, war and remembrance, based on the First World War memoir by Vera Brittain, which has become the classic testimony of that war from a woman's point of view. A searing journey from youthful hopes and dreams to the edge of despair and back again ...
Testament of Youth is a powerful coming-of-age story which tackles love, war, loss and remembrance. It's based on the beloved WW1 memoir by Vera Brittain, which was a bestseller on publication, heralded as the voice of a generation and has become the classic testimony of that war, from a woman's point of view.
May 1, 1996 · Testament of Youth. Audio Cassette – Audiobook, May 1, 1996. In 1915, in the midst of World War I, Vera Brittain turned her back on her middle class upbringing to enlist in the armed services as a nurse. Powerful and shocking, Testament of Youth is a classic memoir of a world at war.
- Vera Brittain
And that prolixity is a shame, because TESTAMENT OF YOUTH contains much that is worthwhile, both as eyewitness history and intelligent (and generally critical) commentary on an Age. At the public school graduation ceremony for the class of Brittain's brother and her soon-to-be fiancée (in 1914, two months before Sarajevo), the Headmaster ...
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Jul 16, 2009 · Testament of Youth. This classic memoir of the First World War - including an afterword by Kate Mosse OBE. In 1914 Vera Brittain was 20, 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 would have been unimaginable in the tranquil pre-war era.
Testament of Youth is a powerful story of love, war and remembrance, based on the First World War memoir by Vera Brittain, which has become the classic testimony of that war from a woman's point of view. A searing journey from youthful hopes and dreams to the edge of despair and back again, it's a film about young love, the futility of war and ...
Aug 4, 2009 · Testament of Youth is Brittain s account of how she lost the man she loved, nursed the wounded, survived those agonizing years, and emerged into an altered world. A passionate record of a lost generation, it made Brittain one of the best-loved writers of her time.
- Vera Brittain
