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Author Brittain, Vera, 1893-1970, author.

Title Testament of Youth : an Autobiographical Study of the Years 1900-1925 / Vera Brittain ; preface by Shirley Williams ; introduction by Mark Bostridge.

Publication Info. New York : Penguin Books, 2005.

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 Berlin-Peck Memorial Library - Biographies  92 BIOGRAPHY BRITTAIN    Check Shelf
 Colchester, Cragin Memorial Library - Adult Department  BIOGRAPHY BRITTAIN, VERA    Check Shelf
 Granby, Main Library - Adult  B BRITTAIN, VERA    Check Shelf
 Middletown, Russell Library - Adult Biography  B-BRITTAIN BRI    Check Shelf
 Simsbury Public Library - Biographies  BIOG BRITTAIN, VERA    Check Shelf
 West Hartford, Noah Webster Library - Biographies  B BRITTAIN VERA B    Check Shelf
Description xix, 661 pages ; 20 cm
Series Penguin classics
Penguin classics.
Note Originally published: London : V. Gollancz, 1933.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages xvi-xix).
Summary "In 1915 Vera Brittain abandoned her studies at Oxford to enlist as a nurse in the armed services. Before the war was over she had served in London, Malta, and close to the Western Front in France--and she had lost all the men she loved. Out of that experience came this cauterizing book, at once a memoir and an elegy for the bright, passionate generation who came of age on the eve of the war and vanished in its trenches."--Back cover.
Contents Forward from Newcastle -- Provincial young-ladyhood -- Oxford versus war -- Learning versus life -- Camberwell versus death -- "When the vision dies..." -- Tawny Island -- Between the sandhills and the sea -- "This loneliest hour" -- Survivors not wanted -- Piping for peace -- "Another stranger".
Subject Brittain, Vera, 1893-1970.
Authors, English -- 20th century -- Biography.
Pacifists -- Great Britain -- Biography.
Feminists -- Great Britain -- Biography.
World War, 1914-1918 -- Personal narratives, English.
World War, 1914-1918 -- Medical care.
World War, 1914-1918 -- Hospitals.
ISBN 0143039237 (pbk.)
9780143039235 (pbk.)
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