"It moves and it educates.".

When Brittain's fiance was killed just before Christmas 1915, she had been expecting him home on leave.

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No Jacket. Your email address will not be published. In real life the English heroine, Vera Brittain, was a powerful voice of her generation, a fearless feminist and fierce pacifist at a time when vast numbers of young men were being slaughtered in World War I.

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Growing up in a conservative middle-class family in Buxton, Derbyshire, she writes unapologetically about her own ambitions to better herself, and wins an exhibition to Oxford despite her parents' traditional ideas about a woman's place being in the home. The book was an instant success, with all 3,000 printed copies selling out on publication day. 3. A first edition, first printing published by Gollancz in 1933. Here is a review from the time of its publication, capturing the flavor of the book and the important story and lessons in its pages. The book was dramatised by Elaine Morgan as a five-part serial which was transmitted on BBC2 in 1979. A very good book without inscriptions with some spotting to the edges and some light fading to the spine. After writing that letter to her brother, Brittain took the best part of 17 years to complete the manuscript.

In 2009 it was announced that the feature film Testament of Youth was in development by BBC Films and Heyday Films producer David Heyman, and was to be directed by James Kent. (Devizes, WILTS, United Kingdom), About this Item: Victor Gollancz, 1935. Ms. Vikander seemed to have the makings of a star in “Ex Machina,” but you couldn’t be sure because her performance was, by definition, slightly robotic as well as mysterious and eerily sexual.

There was almost nothing else available that conveyed the personal devastation of the first world war from a young woman's point of view with such candour.

The conventions don’t extend to the combat scenes, which are spare to the point of impressionistic; this isn’t a film about warfare, it’s about the toll wars take on the nations that fight them.

Published by Hardcover. In the testament of youth, Brittain talks about arriving in Etaples she recalls there being “A heavy shower” this pathetic fallacy suggests that Brittain was miserable about arriving at Etaples but it “ceased” by the time she gets there suggesting that her worries and misery disappear.

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According to Mark Bostridge, this meant that their fledgling romance was necessarily heightened: "By the end of it, they were looking at each other almost as fictional representations," he says.

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It wasn't until the late 70s, after her death, that the feminist publisher Virago reprinted Testament of Youth and a hugely popular television series brought the work to a wider audience. Spine a little faded, faint traces of tape residue to free endpapers, in the jacket with slightly toned spine panel, tiny chips to spine ends, a couple of tiny closed tears to head of panels with light tape repair to verso.

A very good+ book with some light spotting to the edges and some off-setting to the endpapers.

But in many ways, it was simply that Holtby was able to provide the supportive companionship Brittain had once so valued in her beloved elder brother, Edward. She relayed her own life story – first as the daughter of a provincial paper factory owner who struggled to emancipate herself, then as a young woman trying to make sense of the personal ravages wreaked by war.

Between these two books comes Testament of Friendship (published in 1940), which is essentially a memoir of Brittain's close colleague and friend Winifred Holtby.