Testament of Youth (Movie Tie-In): An Autobiobraphical Study of the Years 1900-1925 - Brossura

Brittain, Vera

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ISBN 10: 0143108387 ISBN 13: 9780143108382

Casa editrice: Penguin Books, 2015

Riassunto

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In 1915 Vera Brittain abandoned her studies at Oxford to enlist as a nurse in the armed forces, serving in London, in Malta, and at the Western Front in France. By war’s end, all those closest to her were dead, and she had witnessed firsthand the destruction and suffering of modern combat.

Much of what we know and feel about the First World War we owe to Brittain’s Testament of Youth. In this elegiac yet unsparing memoir, Brittain focused on the men and women who came of age as war broke out, exploring their politics, their hopes, and their fatal idealism. Acclaimed by the Times Literary Supplement as a book that helped “both form and define the mood of its time,” this searing portrait is also a testament to every generation irrevocably changed by war.

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Recensione:

“[Testament of Youth] remains one of the most powerful and widely read war memoirs of all time.” —The Guardian (London)

L'autore:

Vera Brittain (1893–1970) served as a nurse in the British armed forces in World War I and afterward devoted herself to the causes of peace and feminism. She wrote twenty-nine books, of which Testament of Youth is the best-known.

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• Editore: Penguin Books
• Data di pubblicazione: 2015
• ISBN 10: 0143108387
• ISBN 13: 9780143108382
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 672