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NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE

With an introduction by her biographer, Mark Bostridge

Remains one of the most powerful and widely read war memoirs of all time GUARDIAN

Vera Brittain s heart-rending account of the way her generation s lives changed is still as shocking and moving as ever SUNDAY TELEGRAPH

A heartbreaking account of the impact of the First World War on a stout-hearted, high-minded young woman SUNDAY TIMES

In 1914 Vera Brittain was twenty, and as war was declared she was preparing to study at Oxford. Four years later her life – and the lives of a whole generation – had changed in a way that was 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 the period; 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.