As the much anticipated film adaptation of Vera Brittain’s First World War testimony Testament of Youth arrives in cinemas in January 2015 this new book from Mark Bostridge (her biographer) tells the story of a remarkable woman and her extraordinary account of the destructive power of war.
List of Illustrations Foreword 1 Provincial Young Ladyhood 1893-1914 2 Love and War 1914–1915 3 To the Bitter End 1916–1918 4 ‘Didn’t Women Have Their War As Well?’ 1918–1933 5 From Book to Film 1934–2014 Afterword: Ipplepen 269: The Tragic Fate of Edward Brittain Chronology Gazetteer of Places Associated with Vera Brittain and Testament of Youth Further Reading Index
Mark Bostridge's books include Vera Brittain: A Life, shortlisted for the Whitbread Biography Prize, the NCR Award for Non-Fiction and the Fawcett Prize, the bestselling Letters from a Lost Generation, Florence Nightingale: The Woman and Her Legend, awarded the Elizabeth Longford Prize for Historical Biography, and The Fateful Year: England 1914.
"Beautifully written, skillfully crafted . . . Mr. Bostridge has now given us an excellent short book, which puts 'Testament of Youth' in the context of all this additional material while also serving up some priceless up close and personal moments in his own sleuthing efforts to uncover secrets long buried." --Washington Times"[R]ecommended for anyone interested in the history and literature of World War I and in women's history and literature." --Historical Novel Society
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