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Testament of Youth is a memoir of British nurse and activist Vera Brittain (1893–1970), published in 1933. Brittain's memoir covers the years 1900 to 1925, and continues with Testament of Experience, published in 1957, and encompassing the years 1925 to 1950.
May 31, 2005 · Testament of Youth (Penguin Classics) Paperback – May 31, 2005. by Vera Brittain (Author), Shirley Williams (Preface), Mark Bostridge (Introduction) 2,476. See all formats and editions. Giving a voice to a lost generation, this edition features a new introduction by Brittain’s biographer.
- Vera Brittain
Testament of Youth is Vera Brittain’s memoir of her years just prior to, during, and shortly after World War I. It is a unique look at the war from the perspective of a woman who gave up her studies at Oxford to serve as a nurse in France and Malta.
Mar 24, 2013 · Testament of Youth: Vera Brittain's classic, 80 years on. Vera Brittain lost her fiance, brother and two closest male friends in the first world war. She wrote Testament of Youth as a...
Jul 16, 2009 · TESTAMENT OF YOUTH, one of the most famous autobiographies of the First World War, is Brittain's account of how she survived those agonising years; how she lost the man she loved; how she nursed the wounded and how she emerged into an altered world.
May 1, 1996 · 4.4 2,447 ratings. See all formats and editions. 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
May 31, 2005 · Testament of Youth is both a record of what she lived through and an elegy for a vanished generation. Hailed by the Times Literary Suplement as a book that helped "both form and define the mood of its time," it speaks to any generation that has been irrevocably changed by war.
- Vera Brittain
