Testament of Youth

<p><b>NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE </b><br><br><b>With an introduction by her biographer, Mark Bostridge</b><br><br><b>''Remains one of the most powerful and widely read war memoirs of all time'' <i>GUARDIAN </i></b><br><br><b>''Vera Brittain''s heart-rending account of the way her generation''s lives changed is still as shocking and moving as ever'' <i>SUNDAY TELEGRAPH </i></b><br><br><b>''A heartbreaking account of the impact of the First World War on a stout-hearted, high-minded young woman''<i> SUNDAY TIMES </i></b><br><br>In 1914 Vera Brittain was twenty, and as war was declared she was preparing to study at Oxford. Four years later her life - and the lives of a whole generation - had changed in a way that was unimaginable in the tranquil pre-war era.<br><i><br>Testament of Youth</i>, one of the most famous autobiographies of the First World War, is Brittain''s account of how she survived the period; how she lost the man she loved; how she nursed the wounded and how she emerged into an altered world. A passionate record of a lost generation, it made Vera Brittain one of the best-loved writers of her time.</p>