01217c ua2200193 4500 00000000000041697 110103 1978 us 000 eng 0140188444 396 B 86 Brittain V. (Vera) Testament of Youth: An Autobiographical Study of the Years 1900-1925 New York: Penguin Books, 1978. 668 p. Penguin Twentieth-Century Classics n/29091 In 1915 Vera Brittain abandoned her studies at Oxford to enlist as nurse in the armed services. She served in a number of World War theaters - in London, Malta, and at the Western Front in France. By war`s end, all those closest to her were dead, and she had witnessed the results of modern combat, the destruction and the suffering. Focusing on the men and women who came of age as war broke out, Brittain explores 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. Williams Sh. Preface aui 20260805123650.0 5904 5904 0 0 0 0 UWED UWED ANT 2013-05-21 0 396 B 86 000000024612 2026-08-05 12:36:50 2026-08-05 BK