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- Title: Testament of Youth
- Author: Vera Brittain Mark Bostridge
- ISBN: 9780143039235
- Page: 364
- Format: Paperback
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It s another irony of that most ironic of conflicts that the greatest account of how 1914 18 was lived comes not from a male writer out of the trenches, or from some politician familiar with the negotiations, but instead from a middle class girl from Derbyshire who experienced the war first as a waiting fianc e and later as a volunteer nurse Vera Brittain grew up in Buxton, where her father owned a couple of paper mills she was close to her musical brother, had a growing romance with one of his [...]
Where to start I started reading Testament of Youth mainly for the information on WW1, not knowing that apart from suffering heartbreaking losses and being a VAD nurse, Vera Brittain also was a feminist of the first hour and a writer of great astuteness.In consequence she proceeded to reduce me to openmouthed admiration as early on as her description of youth and life prior to the Great War Never before have I truly understood the massive societal changes wrought upon people during that short ph [...]
Videorese a youtube watch v UFD3wCreo 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 aqu aparecen a trav s de cartas, diarios y recuerdos que tampoco olvidar , pero por otro lado he sentido durante todo el libro cierto malestar porque por un lado la propia Vera Brittain me parece digna de admiraci n y compasi n, desde luego fue una mujer impresionante, tremendamente adelantada a su poca, progresista, [...]
This book has been on my to be read list for over thirty years and I really should not have left it this long to read it It is much better known these days following the recent film and a TV adaptation some years ago It is the account of Vera Brittain s wartime experiences, from a sheltered middle class upbringing to starting at Somerville College Oxford and then to volunteer work as a VAD nurse in Britain, France and Malta It shows the horrors of war through the eyes of a woman suffering the lo [...]
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 show how progressive the women s rights have become More pertinently, Shirley is the daughter of Vera Brittain, who is the author of Testament of Youth What Shirley enjoyed in her academic life, Vera had t [...]
Whenever I think of the War to day, it is not as summer but always as winter always as cold and darkness and discomfort, and an intermittent warmth of exhilarating excitement which made us irrationally exult in all three Its permanent symbol, for me, is a candle stuck in the neck of a bottle, the tiny flame flickering in an ice cold draught, yet creating a miniature illusion of light against an opaque infinity of blackness.The temptation to exploit our young wartime enthusiasm must have been imm [...]
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 college with excellent grades, missing the Dean s list by a point At that time, Vera Brittain had also just gotten in Somerville in Oxford on a scholarship She was doing very well there Unlike most girls her [...]
I have no question in my mind that this book deserves four stars Why The woman, Vera Brittain 18931970 is a fascinating person and lived through a difficult but interesting time Following Vera we see the Great War through the eyes of a British middleclass woman She was a VAD Voluntary Aid Detachment nurse in England, France and Malta Before the war she studied at Oxford After the war she continued her studies at Oxford switching from literature to history, worked closely with the League of Natio [...]
Much than a book about a person s experience in a war Although at times a bit tedious to read lots of direct quotes from letters, for example , Vera moves from a rather pampered, sheltered, middle class girl to an articulate, understanding, educated, caring woman through war, loss, deprivation, work, awareness and thought She takes in and considers all sides and ideas, becoming in the end a strong, independent, loving woman.This story take us to her marriage to who appears to be a warm, underst [...]
Down the long white road we walked together,Down between the grey hills and the heather, Where the tawny crestedPlover cries.You seemed all brown and soft, just like a linnet, Your errant hair had shadowed sunbeams in it, And there shone all AprilIn your eyes With your golden voice of tears and laughterSoftened into song Does aught come afterLife, you asked, When life is Laboured through What is God, and all for which we re striving Sweetest sceptic, we were born for living.Life is Love, and Lov [...]
Testament of Youth was a best seller when it was first published in 1933, and became a bestseller once again in the 1970s It is every bit as good as I d remembered when I read it first about twenty years ago Vera Brittain s lively intelligence, determination, bravery and passion all shine through At the start of World War One, and despite finally getting into Oxford University after an incredible effort to overcome her parents objections of course it was accepted that the son would go there but [...]
I tried really hard, but after 132 pages I m giving up.Brittain s book is regarded as a classic of World War One memoir, and I don t doubt that it is Brittain left Oxford having fought her family and won a scholarship to attend after a year to become a V.A.D in 1915 In the war she lost four men very close to her including her brother and her fiance and saw many of the bodily horrors of combat After the war she returned to Oxford and became a well known pacifist, feminist and author.But as a read [...]
I always thought of Testament of Youth as a war book, but this book is in fact much than that yes, the central part of the book which consists of three parts does recount Vera Brittain s first hand experience of the Western Front, where she served as a Voluntary Aid Detachment VAD nurse, but this is also in fact the watershed between the society that was before, and the society to come after Surely Vera Brittain wasn t the only girl brought up in a wealthy upper middle class by Victorian parent [...]
This book is without a doubt one of the best I ve read on the subject of the First World War and it s devastating effects, this time from the perspective of those women who experienced an equal amount of conflict and emotional turmoil after signing up as VAD s We follow Vera Brittain through her sheltered childhood in Buxton, the constraints of her engagement to Roland Leighton, her difficult and dangerous years spent nursing in both London and France, before reaching her return to Oxford and th [...]
Now that Downton Abbey Season 2 has premiered with so much of revolving around cataclysmic tragedy and change caused by WWI, my thoughts turn back to this book Testament of Youth, Vera Brittain s memoir of life, love, and loss during WWI first came to my attention because of Masterpiece Theater which serialized it at least 20 years ago In 2010, I read her memoir again and I may reread it a third time as I also experience these events through the fictional characters of Downton Abbey If you haven [...]
From page 645, while Brittain is touring devastated Central and Eastern Europe to gather material for her occupation as journalist and lecturer in support of the League of NationsIt did not seem, perhaps, as though we, the War generation, would be able to do all that we had once hoped for the actual rebuilding of civilization I understood now that the results of the War would last longer than ourselves it was obvious, in central Europe, that its consequences were deeper rooted, and farther reach [...]
This book changed everything I had read everything on WWi But it was not until this author that the reality of the situation hit me Yes I had read about the lost generation and understood the horror But it was not until she is back after the war studying and she is going to see her parents and she realizes in its full desolation that there is no one in the entire world left alive that holds the same memories Her brother is dead her fianc is dead all her contemporaries are dead It is as if she is [...]
Ci sono cose che non capisci mai finch non le leggi come testimonianza diretta Grazie Vera.
I remember when I was a school girl being given a beautiful book, a prize from Shirley Williams who was then the local MP for the Liverpool suburb I grew up in Her speech given to the gathering made an impression on me due to her remembrance of her mother who had made a great stance for the emancipation of women during the early 20th century She was of course Vera Brittain Since then I always knew I would read this book at some point but have never got round to it until this year, to mark the ce [...]
Brittain was just beginning her studies at Oxford when WWI broke out This is her memoir of a young woman maturing in those turbulent and painful years As the men she knows and loves go to fight and die in the trenches, she volunteers with the Red Cross to serve in military hospitals This memoir extends several years after the conclusion of the war as she grapples with new understanding of the fragility of life, the freedom for and empowerment of women just being sought, the dawning awareness of [...]
10 10 I am sitting here struggling to put into words my feelings about this book having just finished it At once witty, insightful, heartbreaking, honest and bittersweet this is by far the best book I have ever read Very rarely am I so moved that I have had to physically close the book and walk away to compose myself, if affected me that much on than one occasion.This is an absolutely essential read and I cannot believe it took a film for me to know it existed My copy is destined to be bookcros [...]
One of the most beautiful books I ve ever read Stunning
I m too overwhelmed to write a proper review of this book It gets you emotionally involved in it so deep that you keep thinking about it even when you re not reading it How real the relationships were honest those feelings were.d how it all went to waste for something bigger than all of them Vera Roland s letters to each other were especially beautiful heartwarming Their choice of words its combination of tenderness sophistication spoke volumes of how beautiful this relationship was a deep sense [...]
I don t read many non fiction books or biographies autobiographies so this was something different for me It was fascinating to read a personal account of the effects the war had on one woman s life and on society as a whole Reading this book made me realise how little I actually knew about World War I A lot of the places and events mentioned in the book were unfamiliar to me and left me wanting to find out .As I read about all the pain and sorrow she was forced to endure, I became completely ab [...]
I ve long heard of this book and presumed that it was such a classic because Brittain was unfortunately in the right position to write such a book ie working in the nursing service during WWI and secondly losing all the major males in her life except her father But the book is much than that Brittain is an intelligent and gifted writer who manages somehow to write about the most harrowing of ordeals with an acute eye and a sense of balance that is surprising I was only going to skim through thi [...]
From A British woman recalls coming of age during World War I a story of young love, the futility of war, and how to make sense of the darkest times.A movie was made based on this book Testament of Youth 2014 , with Alicia Vikander, Kit Harington, Taron Egerton.
Out there, we ve walked quite friendly up to Death, Sat down and eaten with him, cool and bland, Pardoned his spilling mess tins in our hand We ve sniffed the green thick odour of his breath, Our eyes wept, but our courage didn t writhe He s spat at us with bullets and he s coughed Shrapnel We chorused when he sang aloft, We whistled while he shaved us with his scythe Oh, Death was never enemy of ours We laughed at him, we leagued with him, old chum No soldier s paid to kick against His powers W [...]
Very powerful In the section covering the Great War, the feeling of dread of the loss of one young man after another is almost palpable The blows of those losses were of course repeated endlessly in all the countries involved in that disastrous conflict It is a wonder that people who had experienced that were able to pick up their shattered lives and make something of them after it was over.The section covering Brittain s life after the end of the War is interesting because of her involvement wi [...]
I haven t read a biography that deeply touched me like this one The story of Vera is the story of our entire generation, although it took place a century ago History is not always written by victors, sometimes it s written by those who have suffered the most The memoirs of Vera Brittain during the first great war will remain one of the most important books in the history of mankind.
I was inspired to read this book after I attended a lecture about feminism and pacifism I knew immediately that the book is something I ll like very much I wasn t disappointed I loved the book very dearly and found it very interesting.