Testament Of Youth

Testament Of YouthDescription by Vera Brittain Paperback 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

Over 375 photographs

This is the story of the First World War’s forgotten land army

although his father had been blinded during the Civil War

his company's home town

through sheer hard work

then nothing else mattered—not the millions of dead bodies

she played a crucial role in obtaining the loyalty of Arab leaders

Jünger exulted in the Great War

and alert soldiers to incoming shells

yet as military historian Hew Strachan (winner of the 2016 Pritzker Literature Award) argues in this brilliant and authoritative new book

the time is right for this accessible and authoritative account of China’s role in The Great War and assessment of its national and international significance

from the battlefields of the American South to the battlefields of the Western Front