Testament of youth an autobiographical study of the years 1900-1925
"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 m...
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| Format: | Books Print Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
Penguin Books,
2005.
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| Series: | Penguin classics.
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| 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. |
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| Item Description: | Originally published: London : V. Gollancz, 1933. |
| Physical Description: | xix, 661 pages ; 20 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages xvi-xix). |
| ISBN: | 9780143108382 0143108387 0143039237 9780143039235 |
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