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Title: Testament of Youth: An Autobiographical Study of the Years 1900-1925 (Penguin Twentieth-Century Classics) by Vera Brittain ISBN: 0-14-018844-4 Publisher: Penguin USA (Paper) Pub. Date: September, 1994 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $16.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.88 (24 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Affecting, incisive, brittle, worthwhile
Comment: Ms. Brittain's autobio about the devastating losses she, and her generation, suffered as a result of WW I is simply brilliant. The book is clear, easy reading, and the story, though quite harsh, is never too filled with "woe is me" sentiment. Ms. Brittain's movement from provincial comfort to "university" to working as a volunteer VAD in the hospitals, coupled with the loss of a brother, a love, and a fiance, makes for fascinating reading. Ms. Brittain mourns the passing of the youth of the "war generation", but by the time the book is done, one realizes that the non-combatant "survivors" of Ms. Brittain's own generation--of literary "sets" and chivalric valour betrayed and changes in the social order in deep ferment-- has also passed from among us. This is not a joyful book, and its narrative voice can be quite bitter. But it is a meaningful book, and a very good read. Ms. Brittain's pragmatic feminism resonates well some seventy odd years later.
Rating: 5
Summary: An unforgettable Story
Comment: This is the only book that upon finishing, I turned back to the
first page and started reading again. I am currently reading it
for the fifth time. It is a unique story by one who suffered a
most unbelievable tragedy. It is also a picture ot the world just
prior to the cataclysm of 1914, duirng and after. It is actually
a book in three parts. Part 1 deals with the role and status of
English women prior to 1914. Part 2 details the 1st World War
tragedy from a woman's perspective. Vera Brittain lost her fiancee,
brother and the only two other male friends she had. Part 3
details how she regained a life after the war and how she
became involved in English political and social issues. She was
a most remarkable woman and in my opinion not given the credit
she truly deserves. "Testament of Youth" is the most incredible,
unique masterpiece imaginable.
Rating: 5
Summary: Why isn't this GREAT Book better known here in the States?!
Comment: Reading the first few pages of this extraordinary memoir convinces me that Vera Brittain was truly one of the great writers ever! In fact, it must be among the very greatest memoirs ever. So when I mention this book to friends, they without exception , have never heard of it! Granted it's about a war from long ago, starting 90 years ago, a horror that Vera B. looks at, and condemns with all her passionate genius. And there were hundreds of classics written at the time, written about this most senseless of wars, a slaughter worse than anyone could ever have predicted. But she describes with great compassion this nightmare, and its effect on herself and her generation. When you read about how her fiance is killed, it will be difficult not to put the book down, and do some serious thinking. And her nursing efforts aboard the SS Brittanica (later sunk by a German U-Boat) make a fine story as well. The book may be a bit dense, and overly literary, but it seems that during this era quoting poetry was a normal part of conversation, unlike today!.Anyway, give this book a chance and you'll be completed entranced by this incredible author!
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Title: Good-Bye to All That : An Autobiography by Paul Fussell, Robert Graves ISBN: 0385093306 Publisher: Anchor Pub. Date: 01 February, 1958 List Price(USD): $13.95 |
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Title: The BLACK ALBUM by Hanif Kureishi ISBN: 0684825406 Publisher: Scribner Pub. Date: 29 October, 1996 List Price(USD): $13.00 |
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Title: Letters from a Lost Generation: The First World War Letters of Vera Brittain and Four Friends: Roland Leighton, Edward Brittain, Victor Richardson, Geoffrey Thurlow by Vera Brittain, Alan Bishop, Mark Bostridge ISBN: 1555533795 Publisher: Northeastern University Press Pub. Date: 15 March, 1999 List Price(USD): $32.50 |
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Title: The Great War and Modern Memory by Paul Fussell ISBN: 0195133323 Publisher: Oxford Press Pub. Date: February, 2000 List Price(USD): $16.95 |
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Title: All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque ISBN: 0449213943 Publisher: Ballantine Books Pub. Date: 12 March, 1987 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
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