Vera Brittain and the First World War: The Story of Testament of Youth by Mark Bostridge
Vera Brittain and the First World War: The Story of Testament of Youth by Mark Bostridge
Eighty years after its first publication, Vera Brittain's Testament of Youth remains arguably the greatest work of love, loss, and remembrance to emerge from the First World War.
To coincide with the release of a major feature film based on the book, Mark Bostridge, the leading authority on Vera Brittain's life and work, re-examines Brittain's experience of the war and the ways in which she chose to write about it. He tells the moving story of Brittain's decision to postpone her Oxford studies in order to volunteer as a VAD nurse, and the subsequent deaths in the war of the four young men closest to her, including her fiance and her brother. He charts the slow evolution of Testament of Youth from novel to memoir, and concludes with a section on the dramatizations of the book, culminating in the new film version starring Alicia Vikander and Kit Harington.
Bloomsbury Press, Hardcover, 1st Edition, 1st Printing, 2014, 252 pages
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