Testament Of Youth Av Vera Brittain

<P><B>NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE </B><br><br><B>A British woman recalls coming of age during World War I in this unforgettable true story of young love, war, and how to make sense of the darkest times<br></B><br>'Remains one of the most powerful and widely read war memoirs of all time'<br><I><B>Guardian</B></I><br><br>'A haunting elegy for a lost generation'<br><B><I>The Times</I><br><br></B><I>'S</I>hould be compulsory reading'<br><B><I>Daily Mail</I></B><br><br>In 1914 when war was declared, Vera Brittain was twenty, preparing to study at Oxford. Four years later her life - and the lives of her whole generation - had changed in a way that would have been unimaginable.<br><br>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.<br><br>A passionate record of a lost generation, it made Vera Brittain one of the best-loved writers of her time, and has lost none of its power to shock, move and enthral readers since its first publication in 1933.<br><br><B>With an afterword from Kate Mosse OBE.</B></P>