Vera Brittain and the First World War : The Story of Testament of Youth

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Vera Brittain and the First World War : The Story of Testament of Youth

Bostridge, Mark

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Bloomsbury Continuum（2014/12発売）
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ポイント 32pt

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製本 Paperback:紙装版/ペーパーバック版／ページ数 272 p.
言語 ENG
商品コード 9781472918574
DDC分類 828.91209

Full Description

The inspiration for the film Testament of Youth, this book from Mark Bostridge (Vera Brittain's biographer) tells the story of a remarkable woman and her extraordinary account of the destructive power of war.

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 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.

The book includes a short essay 'From Book to Film', describing the process of turning Testament of Youth into a major feature film. This includes interviews with the production staff and actors, as well as with members of Vera Brittain's family, including Shirley Williams.

List of illustrations
Foreword

1 Provincial Young Ladyhood 1893-1914
2 Love and War 1914-1915
3 To the Bitter End 1916-1918
4 Didn't Women Have Their War As Well? 1918-1933
5 From Book to Film 1934-2014

Afterword: Ipplepen 269: The Tragic Fate of Edward Brittain
Chronology
Gazetteer of Places Associated with Vera Brittain and Testament of Youth
Further Reading
Index