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Testament of Youth is Vera Brittain’s memoir of her years just prior to, during, and shortly after World War I. It is a unique look at the war from the perspective of a woman who gave up her studies at Oxford to serve as a nurse in France and Malta.4/5().  · Vera Brittain lost her fiance, brother and two closest male friends in the first world war. She wrote Testament of Youth as a cry of outrage and agony, so that the futility of their deaths would Author: Elizabeth Day.  · Testament of youth (excerpts) vera brittain. Published in august 28th the book become immediate popular and critical acclaim in non fiction, history books. Hailed by the times literary suplement as a book that helped both form and define the mood of its time, it speaks to any generation that has been irrevocably changed by war.


Testament of Youth is a British drama film based on the First World War memoir of the same name written by Vera www.doorway.ru film stars Alicia Vikander as Vera Brittain, an independent young woman who abandoned her studies at Somerville College, Oxford, to become a war nurse. The film was directed by James Kent and written by Juliette Towhidi. Testament of Youth Analysis. These notes were contributed by members of the GradeSaver community. We are thankful for their contributions and encourage you to make your own. Instead of analyzing Vera Brittain 's life as a kind of existential argument, the reader might consider that to Brittain, each moment in time was experienced in real life. Vera Brittain () 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. Mark Bostridge is a biographer and literary critic who lives in London.


Testament of Youth, Vera Brittain's memoir of life, love, and loss during WWI first came to my attention because of Masterpiece Theater which serialized it at least 20 years ago. In , I read her memoir again and I may reread it a third time as I also experience these events through the fictional characters of Downton Abbey. Testament of Youth is the first instalment, covering –, in the memoir of Vera Brittain (–). It was published in Brittain's memoir continues with Testament of Experience, published in , and encompassing the years – Vera Brittain (–) 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. Mark Bostridge is a biographer and literary critic who lives in London.

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