by Vera Brittain · Penguin Books · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780143108382
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«Testament of Youth» is the autobiography of Vera Brittain, published by Penguin Books in paperback (672 pages, in English).
Vera Brittain abandoned her studies at Oxford to serve as a nurse during the First World War in London, Malta and the French front, and witnessed the destruction of the conflict and the loss of those closest to her. The book shows the hopes, politics and idealism of a generation marked by war.
First instalment of the Testament trilogy and edition linked to the film; the work was originally published in 1933, with a foreword by Shirley Williams.
For readers of memoirs and First World War history, with an interest in female testimonies of the conflict.
Vera Mary Brittain was an English Voluntary Aid Detachment (VAD) nurse, writer, feminist, socialist and pacifist. Her best-selling 1933 memoir Testament of Youth recounted her experiences during the First World War and the beginning of her journey towards pacifism.
