World War I remains the disaster the world has never been completely digested, because, like the wicked witch of the East, it was followed by something even worse. But for Great Britain and France, ...

One military historian hopes the new movie based on the war will inspire watchers to read the book. Vera Brittain’s 1930’s Great War Memoir Resonates Powerfully [Youtube] Anyone looking for a powerful ...

A Woman in Love and War: Vera Brittain was a television docudrama on the life of Vera Brittain and her experiences in the First World War. It was first broadcast on Remembrance Sunday 2008 on BBC One.

HONORABLE ESTATE—Vera Brittain—Macmillan ($2.50). In her best-selling autobiography, Testament of Youth, Vera Brittain tried to “describe and assess the fate of a young generation ignorantly and ...

BORN 1925 (320 pp.)—Vera Britain —Macmillan ($3.50). British Vera Brittain is a born tract writer who persists in doing novels. In 1933, she made her reputation with Testament of Youth, a passionate, ...

As “the map of Europe was undergoing daily transformations,” Vera Brittain began living the war through correspondence from her fiancé, his Oxford friends, and her beloved only brother – all of whom ...

Testament of Youth is a powerful war drama based on one of the best memoirs about war, offering a unique approach to love and the war surrounding it. Alicia Vikander and Kit Harington sell the ...

POLITICAL heavyweight Shirley Williams – Baroness of Crosby – was amongst people who told their stories and presented mementoes from the First World War at Somerville College. Expert historians ...

A dramatization of Vera Brittain's 1933 autobiography Testament of Youth—a memorial to a generation devastated by WWI—chronicles her experiences as a nurse in London and Malta and at the front lines ...