Chronicle of Youth
Author | : Vera Brittain |
Publisher | : London : Gollancz |
Total Pages | : 382 |
Release | : 1981 |
Genre | : Authors, English |
ISBN | : 9780575028883 |
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Author | : Vera Brittain |
Publisher | : London : Gollancz |
Total Pages | : 382 |
Release | : 1981 |
Genre | : Authors, English |
ISBN | : 9780575028883 |
Author | : Vera Brittain |
Publisher | : Penguin |
Total Pages | : 676 |
Release | : 1994 |
Genre | : Authors, English |
ISBN | : 9780140188448 |
An autobiographical account of a young nurse's involvement in World War I
Author | : Vera Brittain |
Publisher | : Phoenix |
Total Pages | : 382 |
Release | : 2000-08-17 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 9781842120941 |
Vera Brittain's bestselling Testament of Youth was based on her own copious diaries which have a much greater intimacy and immediacy than the account written for publication. These are those diaries. They begin in the carefree summer of 1913 with a blossoming romance and earnest discussions about the purpose of life and the nature of God - but not about the onset of war, which takes them by surprise. The diary entries that follow that blissful period begin to darken rapidly. Her brother, her fiance and most of their young men friends are killed in the war. Vera herself goes from knitting helmets and bandaging classes to abandoning her studies at Oxford to train as a nurse. She spent the remainder of the war nursing war-wounded men, among them German prisoners. Her diaries written in London, Malta and France, contain moving descriptions of battle scenes; Zeppelin horrors over London and provide a poignant insight into the mind of this generous-hearted girl who was to become a beacon of the feminist movement.She emerged from these horrifying testing years a committed and lifelong pacifist.
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Total Pages | : 476 |
Release | : 1996 |
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Author | : Mark Bostridge |
Publisher | : Bloomsbury Publishing |
Total Pages | : 283 |
Release | : 2014-12-04 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 1408188457 |
Vera Brittain and the First World War tells the remarkable story of the author behind Testament of Youth whilst charting the book's ascent to become one of the most loved memoirs of the First World War period. Such interest is set to expand even more in this centenary year of the war's outbreak. In the midst of her studies at Oxford when war broke out across Europe, Vera Brittain left university in 1915 to become a V.A.D (Voluntary Aid Detachment) nurse, treating soldiers in London, Malta and Etaples in France. The events of the First World War were to have an enormous impact on her life. Four of Brittain's closest friends including her fiancé Roland Leighton and her brother Edward Brittain MC were killed in action, sparking a lifelong commitment to pacifism. In 1933 she published Testament of Youth, the first of three books dealing with her experience of war. In equal measures courageous, tragic and deeply fascinating, Testament of Youth is one of the most compelling and important works of war literature ever to have been written by a British woman. Mark Bostridge's Vera Brittain and the First World War, published to coincide with the film of Testament of Youth, explores the effects of the First World War on Vera Brittain, both in terms of her personal life and in terms of its effect on her development as a writer and her eventual decision to become a pacifist. Taking advantage of the interest generated by the film, it will bring her story to a new generation and incorporate the most up-to-date research. It will also include a short essay 'From Book to Film', describing the process of turning Testament of Youth into a major feature film. This will include interviews with the production staff and actors, as well as with members of Vera Brittain's family, including Shirley Williams. The film, which has been scripted by Juliette Towhidi and is being produced by BBC Films and Heyday Films, the makers of Harry Potter, is currently in production. Alicia Vikander (Anna Karenina) stars as Brittain, with Kit Harington (Game of Thrones, Pompeii) playing her fiancé Roland Leighton.
Author | : John Stephens |
Publisher | : Yearling |
Total Pages | : 450 |
Release | : 2013-08-27 |
Genre | : Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | : 0375872728 |
After the tumultuous events of last winter, Kate, Michael, and Emma long to continue the hunt for their missing parents. But they themselves are now in great danger, and so the wizard Stanislaus Pym hides the children at the Edgar Allan Poe Home for Hopeless and Incorrigible Orphans. There, he says, they will be safe. How wrong he is. The children are soon discovered by their enemies, and a frantic chase sends Kate a hundred years into the past, to a perilous, enchanted New York City. Searching for a way back to her brother and sister, she meets a mysterious boy whose fate is intricately—and dangerously—tied to her own. Meanwhile, Michael and Emma have set off to find the second of the Books of Beginning. A series of clues leads them into a hidden world where they must brave harsh polar storms, track down an ancient order of warriors, and confront terrible monsters. Will Michael and Emma find the legendary book of fire—and master its powers—before Kate is lost to them forever? Exciting, suspenseful, and brimming with humor and heart, the next installment of the bestselling Books of Beginning trilogy will lead Kate, Michael, and Emma closer to their family—and to the magic that could save, or destroy, them all.
Author | : John McNichol |
Publisher | : Imagio |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2008 |
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ISBN | : 9781933184265 |
In early twentieth-century London, orphaned sixteen-year-old Gilbert, pulled from his factory job to write a news story about meteors, finds himself facing invaders from Mars and also learning of a sinister conspiracy related to his own past.
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Release | : 1981 |
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Author | : Vera Brittain |
Publisher | : Weidenfeld & Nicolson |
Total Pages | : 426 |
Release | : 2002 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 9781842125427 |
Vera Brittain¿s bestselling TESTAMENT OF YOUTH was based on her own copious diaries, which have a much greater intimacy than the account written for publication. These are those diaries. They begin in the carefree summer of 1913 with a blossoming romance and earnest discussions about the purpose of life and the nature of God ¿ but not about the onset of war, which takes them by surprise. The diary entries begin to darken rapidly. Her brother, her fiancé and most of their young men friends are killed in the war. Vera herself goes from knitting helmets and bandaging classes to abandoning her studies at Oxford to train as a nurse. She spent the remainder of the war nursing war-wounded men, among them German prisoners. Her diaries, written in London, Malta and France, contain moving descriptions of battle scenes and Zeppelin horrors over London.
Author | : Vera Brittain |
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Release | : 2011 |
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Description: Part 1 of an annotated typescript of A Chronicle of Youth (unpublished). Vera Brittain, writer, lecturer, pacifist, and feminist, was born on 29 December 1893 at Newcastle-under-Lyme. She went up to Somerville College, Oxford in 1914 but left to serve as a VAD in World War I. She returned to Oxford after the war where she became friends with Winifred Holtby, a budding novelist. She married George Catlin in 1925 and became the mother of two children. Her most well-known book is Testament of Youth (1933) about her experiences in World War I. During World War II she was a leading member of the Peace Pledge Union. She died in London on 29 March 1970.