Testament of Youth

A reader raved about this on episode 86 of WSIRN. The publisher calls this a "classic memoir of the First World War. In 1914 Vera Brittain was 20, and as war was declared she was preparing to study at Oxford. Four years later her life had changed in a way that would have been unimaginable in the tranquil pre-war era. Testament of Youth is Brittain's account of how she survived those agonising years; 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, and has lost none of its power to shock, move and enthral readers since its first publication in 1933."