Testament of Youth: An Autobiographical Study Of The Years 1900-1925

Showing of 7 reviews. Top Reviews Most recent Top Reviews. There was a problem filtering reviews right now.

Dubray Books. Testament of Youth: An Autobiographical Study of the Years

Please try again later. Kindle Edition Verified Purchase.

Great book - one of the best memoirs about WW1 that I've ever read. Vera Brittain conveys the horrors and sadness of the War as well as it's pointless waste of human life with compassion and insight. It is a poignant and moving account of a generation catapulted into a conflict of which they had little real understanding of its underlying motives.

So very interesting and so well written - a real woman's struggle to achieve her dreams - but in the end gave it up to work as a volunteer nurse in the war - and all the deprivations that came with it. It's a true story about joy, loss, grief and eventual fulfillment. Her daughter became a politician in the 60s - an education minister in a labour government.

Brings much detail and descriptions of the horrors of the war in its effect on that generation of young men. A little bit too earnest and detailed om personalities, but engrossing and disturbing. Quite a long book very touching story and should be told to all generations.

Join Kobo & start eReading today

I can't help but feel that when But he never turned again. I imagined that life was individual, one's own affair; that the events happening in the world outside were important enough in their own way, but were personally quite irrelevant. Now, like the rest of my generation, I have had to learn again and again the terrible truth. People's lives were entirely their own, perhaps--and more justifiably--when the world seemed enormous, and all its comings and goings were slow and deliberate. But this is so no longer, and never will be again, since man's inventions have eliminated so much of distance and time; for better, for worse, we are now each of us part of the surge and swell of great economic and political movements, and whatever we do, as individuals or as nations, deeply affects everyone else.

Can one make a book out of the very essence of one's self? Perhaps so, if one was left with one's gift stripped bare of all that made it worth having, and nothing else was left It makes one tense and hard and disagreeable, and this means that one repels and antagonises people, and then they dislike and avoid one--and that means more isolation and still more sorrow.

Customers who viewed this item also viewed

I remember him, at the age of seven, as a rather solemn, brown-eyed little boy, with beautiful arched eyebrows which lately, to my infinite satisfaction, have begun to reproduce themselves, a pair of delicate question-marks, above the dark eyes of my five-year-old son. Even in childhood we seldom quarrelled, and by the time that we both went away to boarding-school he had already become the dearest companion of thos brief years of unshadowed adolescence permitted to our condemned generation.

I have learnt to hope that if there be a Judgment Day of some kind, God will not see us with our own eyes, nor judge us as we judge ourselves. Not such bad qualities in adolescence after all, since most of us have to be self-righteous before we can be righteous. At Kobo, we try to ensure that published reviews do not contain rude or profane language, spoilers, or any of our reviewer's personal information.

Product description

You submitted the following rating and review. We'll publish them on our site once we've reviewed them. Item s unavailable for purchase. Please review your cart. You can remove the unavailable item s now or we'll automatically remove it at Checkout. Continue shopping Checkout Continue shopping.

• Lombra del torturatore: 1 (Fanucci Narrativa) (Italian Edition)!
• Testament of Youth: An Autobiographical Study of the Years !
• Windows On the World;
• Testament of Youth: An Autobiographical Study Of The Years - Vera Brittain - Google Книги!
• Testament of Youth Quotes by Vera Brittain.
• Testament of Youth Quotes.

Chi ama i libri sceglie Kobo e inMondadori. Buy the eBook Price: Unavailable in Russia This item can't be purchased in Russia. Ratings and Reviews 0 6 star ratings 0 reviews. How to write a great review Do Say what you liked best and least Describe the author's style Explain the rating you gave Don't Use rude and profane language Include any personal information Mention spoilers or the book's price Recap the plot.

Close Report a review At Kobo, we try to ensure that published reviews do not contain rude or profane language, spoilers, or any of our reviewer's personal information. Would you like us to take another look at this review?

• The Eastern enlargement of the currency union: Challenges for the ECBs monetary policy.
• Citation Styles for "Testament of youth : an autobiographical study of the years 1900-1925".
• The Haunted Man and The Ghosts Bargain : Literature Classics (Annotated);
• The Christmas Gift?
• Lullaby in Lone Creek (Lone Creek Ranch).
• Testament of youth: an autobiographical study of the years 1900-1925.

No, cancel Yes, report it Thanks! You've successfully reported this review. We appreciate your feedback. July 16, Imprint: