Testament of Youth, Vera Brittain
Testament of Youth, Vera Brittain
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Testament of Youth
An unforgettable true story of love and loss in World War I

Author: Vera Brittain

Narrator: Sheila Mitchell

Unabridged: 23 hr 54 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 01/07/2016

Synopsis

NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE

A British woman recalls coming of age during World War I in this unforgettable true story of young love, war, and how to make sense of the darkest times

'Remains one of the most powerful and widely read war memoirs of all time'
Guardian

'A haunting elegy for a lost generation'
The Times

'Should be compulsory reading'
Daily Mail

In 1914 when war was declared, Vera Brittain was twenty, preparing to study at Oxford. Four years later her life - and the lives of her whole generation - had changed in a way that would have been unimaginable.

TESTAMENT OF YOUTH, one of the most famous autobiographies of the First World War, is Brittain's account of how she survived those agonising years; how she lost the man she loved; how she nursed the wounded and how she emerged into an altered world.

A passionate record of a lost generation, it made Vera Brittain one of the best-loved writers of her time, and has lost none of its power to shock, move and enthral readers since its first publication in 1933.

With an afterword from Kate Mosse OBE.

About Vera Brittain

Born in 1893, Vera Brittain won an exhibition to Somerville College, Oxford, in 1914, but a year later abandoned her studies to enlist as a VAD nurse. She served throughout the war, working in London, Malta and close to the Front in France. At the end of the war, with all of those closest to her dead, she returned to Oxford. Vera Brittain was a convinced pacifist, a prolific speaker, lecturer, journalist and writer, she devoted much of her energy to the causes of peace and feminism. She wrote 29 books in all, novels, poetry, biography and autobiography, but it was TESTAMENT OF YOUTH which established her reputation and made her one of the best-loved writers of her time. She died in 1970.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Luffy Sempai on March 05, 2022

Shirley Williams was born in 1930. She is in fact The Baroness Williams of Crosby. She was also Leader of the Liberal Democrats in the House of Lords, from 2001 and 2004. From 2007 to 2010, she acted as Adviser on Nuclear Proliferation to Prime Minister Gordon Brown. The above quote was written to s......more

Goodreads review by Magrat on January 12, 2017

Videoreseña: [URL not allowed] Creo que voy a tardar en poner en orden mis ideas con este libro. Hay partes de las memorias de Brittain que me han impresionado mucho, personas que aquí aparecen a través de cartas, diarios y recuerdos que tampoco olvidaré, pero por otro lado he......more

Goodreads review by Libros Prestados on May 06, 2020

Hay muchas novelas sobre la Primera Guerra Mundial (no tanto como de la segunda, pero bastantes), pero esta crónica de Vera Brittain, que fue enfermera en el frente, se siente diferente y fresca, incluso hoy en día. Porque siempre pensamos que nuestra generación es distinta, que nuestra juventud es......more

Goodreads review by Joselito Honestly on April 17, 2012

Vera Brittain was, at that time, a bit younger that my daughter is now. Her elder brother Edward was then also one or two years younger than my son today. Sometimes I still see my children as babies, scratching their backs when they need to relax. My daughter had just finished her first year of colle......more

Quotes

Vera Brittain's heart-rending account of the way her generation's lives changed is still as shocking and moving as ever. STELLA MAGAZINE, SUNDAY TELEGRAPH

Like the much-misunderstood poppy, Testament both memorializes and warns... to remain uninformed is actually life-threatening. TLS

it was a surprise to pick her book up now and discover how very good it is. The Guardian

sublimely moving... this is a truly great book... should be compulsory reading for the nation's debauched and aimless yobs and yobettes DAILY MAIL

essential reading, not just as an anti-war polemic but as a portrait of a whole generation of young people who were totally ill-prepared and whose lives were utterly changed within four momentous years. HISTORICAL NOVELS REVIEW

brilliantly captures the protracted horrors of a war into which her generation was preciptated unprepared... as a personal and social document of its turbulent times, written from the viewpoint of a serious and reflective young woman, this autobiographical work fully merits rediscovery. CATHOLIC HERALD

Everyone should read this book. Like all true classics, it has something to tell us all, one generation after another. And this handsome new edition benefits from photographic illustrations and an elegant preface by Shirley Williams, Vera Brittain's distinguished daughter. If you have tears, prepare to share them now. TRIBUNE

A heartbreaking account of the impact of the First World War on a stout-hearted, high-minded young woman THE SUNDAY TIMES '100 Biographies to Love'

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