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Author : Vera Brittain
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 9780140188448
Total Pages : 676 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (884 download)
Download or read book Testament of Youth written by Vera Brittain and published by Penguin. This book was released on 1994 with total page 676 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An autobiographical account of a young nurse's involvement in World War I
Author : Mark Bostridge
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1408188457
Total Pages : 283 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (81 download)
Download or read book Vera Brittain and the First World War written by Mark Bostridge and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2014-12-04 with total page 283 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Vera Brittain and the First World War tells the remarkable story of the author behind Testament of Youth whilst charting the book's ascent to become one of the most loved memoirs of the First World War period. Such interest is set to expand even more in this centenary year of the war's outbreak. In the midst of her studies at Oxford when war broke out across Europe, Vera Brittain left university in 1915 to become a V.A.D (Voluntary Aid Detachment) nurse, treating soldiers in London, Malta and Etaples in France. The events of the First World War were to have an enormous impact on her life. Four of Brittain's closest friends including her fiancé Roland Leighton and her brother Edward Brittain MC were killed in action, sparking a lifelong commitment to pacifism. In 1933 she published Testament of Youth, the first of three books dealing with her experience of war. In equal measures courageous, tragic and deeply fascinating, Testament of Youth is one of the most compelling and important works of war literature ever to have been written by a British woman. Mark Bostridge's Vera Brittain and the First World War, published to coincide with the film of Testament of Youth, explores the effects of the First World War on Vera Brittain, both in terms of her personal life and in terms of its effect on her development as a writer and her eventual decision to become a pacifist. Taking advantage of the interest generated by the film, it will bring her story to a new generation and incorporate the most up-to-date research. It will also include a short essay 'From Book to Film', describing the process of turning Testament of Youth into a major feature film. This will include interviews with the production staff and actors, as well as with members of Vera Brittain's family, including Shirley Williams. The film, which has been scripted by Juliette Towhidi and is being produced by BBC Films and Heyday Films, the makers of Harry Potter, is currently in production. Alicia Vikander (Anna Karenina) stars as Brittain, with Kit Harington (Game of Thrones, Pompeii) playing her fiancé Roland Leighton.
Author : Vera Brittain
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 458 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (21 download)
Download or read book Testament of Youth written by Vera Brittain and published by . This book was released on 1960 with total page 458 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Vera Brittain
Publisher : DigiCat
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 45 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (596 download)
Download or read book Verses of a V.A.D written by Vera Brittain and published by DigiCat. This book was released on 2022-09-16 with total page 45 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "Verses of a V.A.D" by Vera Brittain. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.
Author : Mark Bostridge
Publisher : Hachette UK
ISBN 13 : 034900854X
Total Pages : 592 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (49 download)
Download or read book Vera Brittain: A Life written by Mark Bostridge and published by Hachette UK. This book was released on 2016-02-25 with total page 592 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Vera Brittain is most widely known as the woman who immortalized a lost generation in her haunting autobiography of the Great War, TESTAMENT OF YOUTH. Writer, pacifist and feminist, she condemned her provincial background but remained acutely conscious of the conventional elements in her own character; she revealed a richly emotional life in her writing but was outwardly sober and reserved; she possessed a fierce desire for fame and recognition but was ready to sacrifice both on matters of principle. This biography - comprehensive, authoritative and immensely readable - confirms Vera Brittain's stature as one of the most remarkable women of our time.
Author : Vera Brittain
Publisher : Hachette UK
ISBN 13 : 0748118411
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (481 download)
Download or read book Because You Died written by Vera Brittain and published by Hachette UK. This book was released on 2010-02-04 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 volume of remembrance to mark the ninetieth anniversary of the Armistice.
Author : Vera Brittain
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 330 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Dark Tide written by Vera Brittain and published by . This book was released on 1923 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Mark Bostridge
Publisher : Hachette UK
ISBN 13 : 0349007713
Total Pages : 279 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (49 download)
Download or read book Letters From A Lost Generation written by Mark Bostridge and published by Hachette UK. This book was released on 2015-07-02 with total page 279 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nothing in the papers, not the most vivid and heart-rending descriptions, have made me realise war like your letters' Vera Brittain to Roland Leighton, 17 April 1915. This selection of letters, written between 1913 & 1918, between Vera Brittain and four young men - her fiance Roland Leighton, her brother Edward and their close friends Victor Richardson & Geoffrey Thurlow present a remarkable and profoundly moving portrait of five young people caught up in the cataclysm of total war. Roland, 'Monseigneur', is the 'leader' & his letters most clearly trace the path leading from idealism to disillusionment. Edward, ' Immaculate of the Trenches', was orderly & controlled, down even to his attire. Geoffrey, the 'non-militarist at heart' had not rushed to enlist but put aside his objections to the war for patriotism's sake. Victor on the other hand, possessed a very sweet character and was known as 'Father Confessor'. An important historical testimony telling a powerful story of idealism, disillusionment and personal tragedy.
Author : Jean E. Kennard
Publisher : University Press of New England
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 248 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Vera Brittain & Winifred Holtby written by Jean E. Kennard and published by University Press of New England. This book was released on 1989 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A feminist literary study of the friendship between two modern British writers as manifested in their works.
Author : Vera Brittain
Publisher : London : Gollancz
ISBN 13 : 9780575028883
Total Pages : 382 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (288 download)
Download or read book Chronicle of Youth written by Vera Brittain and published by London : Gollancz. This book was released on 1981 with total page 382 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Vera Brittain
Publisher : Hachette UK
ISBN 13 : 1405515554
Total Pages : 337 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (55 download)
Download or read book Testament of Friendship written by Vera Brittain and published by Hachette UK. This book was released on 2012-03-22 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: WRITTEN WITH A NEW INTRODUCTION BY MARK BOSTRIDGE In her bestselling first volume of autobiography, Testament of Youth, Vera Brittain passionately recorded the agonising years of the First World War, lamenting the destruction of a generation which for her included those she most dearly loved - her lover, her brother and her closest friends. In Testament of Friendship Brittain tells the story of the woman who helped her survive those tragic years - the writer Winifred Holtby. They met at Somerville College, Oxford, immediately after the war. Their friendship continued through Vera's marriage and their separate but parallel writing careers until Winifred's untimely death at the age of thirty-seven. When she died, her fame as a writer was about to reach its peak with the publication of her greatest novel, South Riding. A moving record of a friendship between two women of courage, determination and intelligence and a wonderful portrait of a lifelong love. Testament of Friendship now takes its rightful place as a Virago Modern Classic.
Author : Vera Brittain
Publisher : Virago Press
ISBN 13 : 9781860497827
Total Pages : 587 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (978 download)
Download or read book Honourable Estate written by Vera Brittain and published by Virago Press. This book was released on 2000 with total page 587 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Young Janet Harding is still grieving when she accepts a proposal from Reverend Rutherston, the kindly vicar who befriended her during her mother's last illness. Her ambitions to further the suffragette cause are hampered, though, by her early pregnancy with a son, Denis, and life in the spa town of Sterndale is increasingly stifling... Stephen Allendeyne, heir to Dene Hall, prides himself on his marriage to Jessie Penryder, an impoverished governess with little respect for his smug family but plenty of social ambition. At odds in all else, the couple are united in their scorn for daughter Ruth's preference for work, ideas and freedom over marriage... In the aftermath of WWI, Ruth and Denis meet each other through work in Eastern Europe. The scars of their pasts and of the war itself are diminished in a determination to forge a new kind of marriage.
Author : Vera Brittain
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 9780140188448
Total Pages : 676 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (884 download)
Download or read book Testament of Youth written by Vera Brittain and published by Penguin. This book was released on 1994 with total page 676 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An autobiographical account of a young nurse's involvement in World War I
Author : David Ballantyne
Publisher : Text Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1921961007
Total Pages : 296 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (219 download)
Download or read book Sydney Bridge Upside Down: Text Classics written by David Ballantyne and published by Text Publishing. This book was released on 2012-04-26 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A great, untamed story about childhood, a summer holiday and a sinister tragedy that looms over everything.
Author : Vera Brittain
Publisher : ISIS Large Print Books
ISBN 13 : 9781850890577
Total Pages : 446 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (95 download)
Download or read book Account Rendered written by Vera Brittain and published by ISIS Large Print Books. This book was released on 1987 with total page 446 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : John Catlin
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (43 download)
Download or read book Family Quartet written by John Catlin and published by . This book was released on 1987 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Robert McCrum
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781903385838
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (858 download)
Download or read book The 100 Best Nonfiction Books of All Time written by Robert McCrum and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Beginning in 1611 with the King James Bible and ending in 2014 with Elizabeth Kolbert's 'The Sixth Extinction', this extraordinary voyage through the written treasures of our culture examines universally-acclaimed classics such as Pepys' 'Diaries', Charles Darwin's 'The Origin of Species', Stephen Hawking's 'A Brief History of Time' and a whole host of additional works --
