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Name: Testament of youth
Rating: 3 (3 reviews)
Author: Vera Brittain

Vera Brittain’s memoir traces her life from youth in pre‑war England through the Great War. After winning an Oxford scholarship, she joins the war effort as a Voluntary Nurse. Her firsthand accounts of London’s suffering and French front hospitals reveal the devastation of her generation. Returning to Oxford after the war, she completes her studies, meets lifelong friend Winifred Holtby, and dedicates herself to peace activism and journalism. The book offers a powerful, personal testimony of war, nursing, pacifism, and feminism.

First publish date: 1933

Genre: Biography & Autobiography/Autobiography

Authors: Vera Brittain

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