Vera Brittain And The First World War
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| Author | : Mark Bostridge |
| Publisher | : Bloomsbury Publishing |
| Total Pages | : 283 |
| Release | : 2014-12-04 |
| Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
| ISBN | : 1408188457 |
Vera Brittain and the First World War tells the remarkable story of the author behind Testament of Youth whilst charting the book's ascent to become one of the most loved memoirs of the First World War period. Such interest is set to expand even more in this centenary year of the war's outbreak. 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, published to coincide with the film of Testament of Youth, 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. It will also include a short essay 'From Book to Film', describing the process of turning Testament of Youth into a major feature film. This will include interviews with the production staff and actors, as well as with members of Vera Brittain's family, including Shirley Williams. The film, which has been scripted by Juliette Towhidi and is being produced by BBC Films and Heyday Films, the makers of Harry Potter, is currently in production. Alicia Vikander (Anna Karenina) stars as Brittain, with Kit Harington (Game of Thrones, Pompeii) playing her fiancé Roland Leighton.
| Author | : Vera Brittain |
| Publisher | : Penguin |
| Total Pages | : 676 |
| Release | : 1994 |
| Genre | : Authors, English |
| ISBN | : 9780140188448 |
An autobiographical account of a young nurse's involvement in World War I
| Author | : Mark Bostridge |
| Publisher | : Hachette UK |
| Total Pages | : 279 |
| Release | : 2015-07-02 |
| Genre | : Literary Collections |
| ISBN | : 0349007713 |
Nothing in the papers, not the most vivid and heart-rending descriptions, have made me realise war like your letters' Vera Brittain to Roland Leighton, 17 April 1915. This selection of letters, written between 1913 & 1918, between Vera Brittain and four young men - her fiance Roland Leighton, her brother Edward and their close friends Victor Richardson & Geoffrey Thurlow present a remarkable and profoundly moving portrait of five young people caught up in the cataclysm of total war. Roland, 'Monseigneur', is the 'leader' & his letters most clearly trace the path leading from idealism to disillusionment. Edward, ' Immaculate of the Trenches', was orderly & controlled, down even to his attire. Geoffrey, the 'non-militarist at heart' had not rushed to enlist but put aside his objections to the war for patriotism's sake. Victor on the other hand, possessed a very sweet character and was known as 'Father Confessor'. An important historical testimony telling a powerful story of idealism, disillusionment and personal tragedy.
| Author | : Vera Brittain |
| Publisher | : Hachette UK |
| Total Pages | : 240 |
| Release | : 2010-02-04 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 0748118411 |
This collection of Vera Brittain's poetry and prose, some of it never published before, commemorates the men she loved - fiancé, brother and two close friends - who served and died in the First World War. It draws on her experiences as a VAD nurse in London, Malta, and France, and illustrates her growing conviction of the wickedness of all war. Illustrated with many extraordinary photographs from Brittain's own albums, and edited with a new introduction by Mark Bostridge, Because You Died is an elegy to men who lost their lives in a bloody conflict, and a volume of remembrance to mark the ninetieth anniversary of the Armistice.
| Author | : Vera Brittain |
| Publisher | : Weidenfeld & Nicolson |
| Total Pages | : 608 |
| Release | : 2009-07-16 |
| Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
| ISBN | : 0297859145 |
This classic memoir of the First World War is now a major motion picture starring Alicia Vikander and Kit Harington. Includes an afterword by Kate Mosse OBE. In 1914 Vera Brittain was 20, and as war was declared she was preparing to study at Oxford. Four years later her life - and the life of her whole generation - had changed in a way that would have been unimaginable in the tranquil pre-war era. TESTAMENT OF YOUTH, one of the most famous autobiographies of the First World War, 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.
| Author | : Vera Brittain |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 458 |
| Release | : 1960 |
| Genre | : Authors, English |
| ISBN | : |
| Author | : Vera Brittain |
| Publisher | : London : Gollancz |
| Total Pages | : 382 |
| Release | : 1981 |
| Genre | : Authors, English |
| ISBN | : 9780575028883 |
| Author | : Mary K. Laurents |
| Publisher | : Rowman & Littlefield |
| Total Pages | : 242 |
| Release | : 2020-12-10 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 1793617430 |
This book analyzes the development of the Lost Generation narrative following the First World War. The author examines narratives that illustrate the fracture of upper-class identity, including well-known examples of the Lost Generation—Robert Graves, Siegfried Sassoon, and Vera Brittain—as well as other less typical cases—George Mallory and JRR Tolkien—to demonstrate the effects of the First World War on British society, culture, and politics.
| Author | : Vera Brittain |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 330 |
| Release | : 1923 |
| Genre | : English fiction |
| ISBN | : |
| Author | : Ann-Marie Einhaus |
| Publisher | : Penguin UK |
| Total Pages | : 432 |
| Release | : 2007-10-25 |
| Genre | : Fiction |
| ISBN | : 0141916494 |
An anthology of Great War short stories by British writers, both famous and lesser-known authors, men and women, during the war and after its end. These stories are able to illustrate the impact of the Great War on British society and culture and the many modes in which short fiction contributed to the war's literature. The selection covers different periods: the war years themselves, the famous boom years of the late 1920s to the more recent past in which the First World War has received new cultural interest.
