Vera Brittain was een Brits schrijfster en pacifiste, wiens werk zich voornamelijk richt op persoonlijke ervaringen en maatschappelijk commentaar. Haar schrijven verkent vaak de impact van oorlog en de urgentie van vredesactivisme, onderscheiden door haar eerlijke en reflectieve stijl. Door haar literaire talenten biedt ze diepgaande inzichten in menselijk veerkracht tegenover tragedie en een onvermoeibaar pleidooi voor geweldloosheid. Haar oeuvre is een belangrijke bijdrage aan de 20e-eeuwse literatuur, die lezers nog steeds aanspreekt met haar morele boodschap.
This poignant work collects letters written from 1913 to 1918 between Vera Brittain and four young men - her fiance Roland Leighton, her younger brother Edward, and their two close friends, Victor Richardson and Geoffrey Thurlow - who were killed in World War I. While this correspondence inspired Testament of Youth, Brittain's classic memoir of her wartime experiences, most of the letters are published here for the first time.
"Testament of Youth is one of the most famous and best loved autobiographies of the First World War. Both a passionate record of those agonizing years and a loving memorial to a lost generation, in spirit and impact it as powerful as those other classics of World War I, All quiet on the westrer front and Goodbye to all that."--back cover.
This collection of Vera Brittain's poetry and prose, some of it never published before, commemorates the men she loved - fiancé, brother and two close friends - who served and died in the First World War. It draws on her experiences as a VAD nurse in London, Malta, and France, and illustrates her growing conviction of the wickedness of all war. Illustrated with many extraordinary photographs from Brittain's own albums, and edited with a new introduction by Mark Bostridge, BECAUSE YOU DIED is an elegy to men who lost their lives in a bloody conflict, and a beautiful volume of remembrance to mark the anniversary of the Armistice.
A Fragment Of History