Chronicle Of Youth: Vera Brittain's Great War Diary, 1913-1917 - Softcover

Brittain, Vera

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1842120948 ISBN 13: 9781842120941

Verlag: Orion, 2000

Inhaltsangabe

Book by Brittain Vera

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Reseña del editor:

Vera Brittain¿s bestselling Testament of Youth was based on her own copious diaries which have a much greater intimacy and immediacy than the account written for publication. These are those diaries. They begin in the carefree summer of 1913 with a blossoming romance and earnest discussions about the purpose of life and the nature of God ¿ but not about the onset of war, which takes them by surprise. The diary entries that follow that blissful period begin to darken rapidly. Her brother, her fiancé and most of their young men friends are killed in the war. Vera herself goes from knitting helmets and bandaging classes to abandoning her studies at Oxford to train as a nurse. She spent the remainder of the war nursing war-wounded men, among them German prisoners. Her diaries written in London, Malta and France, contain moving descriptions of battle scenes; Zeppelin horrors over London and provide a poignant insight into the mind of this generous-hearted girl who was to become a beacon of the feminist movement.She emerged from these horrifying testing years a committed and lifelong pacifist.

Biografía del autor:

Born in 1893, Vera Brittain was educated at Somerville College, Oxford, and became renowned as a pacifist, feminist, author, journalist and lecturer, after her first hand experiences of the first world war. She died in 1970.

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• Verlag: Orion
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2000
• ISBN 10: 1842120948
• ISBN 13: 9781842120941
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 384
• Herausgeber: Bishop Alan