Chronicle of youth: The War diary 1913-1917

About this book

Vera Brittains bestselling Testament of Youth was based on these copious diaries-which have far greater intimacy and immediacy. Beginning in the carefree summer of 1913 it follows the shocking onset of war and the tragic loss of her brother her fianc and most of their young friends in the fighting. Vera herself abandoned Oxford to train as a nurse and spent the rest of the war tending to the wounded-including German prisoners. Written in London Malta and France it captures all the wars horrors and Brittains emergence as a committed pacifist. "One of the rare books which are a landmark for a whole generation."-Times Literary Supplement.