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020			_a9780143039235
082	1		_a92 BRI _2
100	1		_aBrittain, Vera
245	1	4	_aTestament of youth _c/ Vera Brittain
260			_aLondon _b: Penguin Books _c, 2005
300			_a661 p. _c; 20 cm
520			_aMuch of what we know and feel about the First World War we owe to Vera Brittains elegiac yet unsparing book, which set a standard for memoirists from Martha Gellhorn to Lillian Hellman. Abandoning her studies at Oxford in 1915 to enlist as a nurse in the armed services, Brittain served in London, in Malta, and on the Western Front. By wars end she had lost virtually everyone she loved. "Testament of Youth" is both a record of what she lived through and an elegy for a vanished generation. Hailed by the "Times Literary Supplement" as a book that helped both form and define the mood of its time, it speaks to any generation that has been irrevocably changed by war.
546			_aEnglish
600	1	4	_aBrittain, Vera _d(1893-1970)
650		4	_aNurses _z-England _v--Biography
650		4	_aWorld War _y-1914-1918 _x-Medical and sanitary affairs
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