num_pages: 688
description: Much of what we know and feel about the First World War we owe to Vera Brittain's elegiac yet unsparing book, which set a standard for memoirists from Martha Gellhorn to Lillian Hellman. Abandoning her studies at Oxford in 1915 to enlist as a nurse in the armed services, Brittain served in London, in Malta, and on the Western Front. By war's end she had lost virtually everyone she loved. Testament of Youth is both a record of what she lived through and an elegy for a vanished generation. Hailed by the Times Literary Supplement as a book that helped “both form and define the mood of its time,” it speaks to any generation that has been irrevocably changed by war.
language: English
title: Testament of Youth
titlecomplete: Testament of Youth
genres: Historical, History, Classics, World War I, Biography, Memoir, Autobiography, War, Biography Memoir, Nonfiction
ratings_count: 11049
series: Testament Trilogy
publisher: Penguin Classics