Testament of Youth: An Autobiographical Study of the Years 1900-1925Penguin, 1994 - 661 pagina's Brittain’s pacifist and feminist memoir of the First World War, in which she served as a nurse in London, Malta, and in France at the front, is a classic account of an entire generation marked by fatal idealism and changed by war. |
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FORWARD FROM NEWCASTLE | 17 |
PROVINCIAL YOUNGLADYHOOD | 50 |
OXFORD VERSUS WAR | 94 |
LEARNING VERSUS LIFE | 135 |
CAMBERWELL VERSUS DEATH | 205 |
WHEN THE VISION DIES | 239 |
TAWNY ISLAND | 290 |
BETWEEN THE SANDHILLS AND THE SEA | 362 |
THIS LONELIEST HOUR | 427 |
SURVIVORS NOT WANTED | 467 |
PIPING FOR PEACE | 535 |
ANOTHER STRANGER | 606 |
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