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Testament of Youth

Vera Brittain,

Mark Bostridge (Introduction),

Shirley Williams (Preface)

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Dec 12, 2008 Graceann rated it really liked it

Shelves: memoir, history

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More a book that you study and admire than love, but well worth the effort. A lot was demanded of me in these 661 pages - I have a wide-ranging vocabulary, but Vera Brittain is in a class by herself. The best and most interesting section is the middle third, in which Vera discusses her war work and her worries for those she ...more

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Dec 15, 2018 Joan rated it really liked it

Shelves: memoir

An intimate peak into the trauma and tragedy that World War 1 inflicted on a generation of young women and men as told by a woman who lived and breathed and survived the war.

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Mar 01, 2009 Susan marked it as to-read

Shelves: british, world-war-one

Jun 26, 2010 Deedee marked it as to-read · review of another edition

Shelves: three-word-title, color-gray, classics, memoirs, history-world-war-one, history-20th-century, 1930-1939, nonfiction-nurses, v3, rws-world-war-one