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Vera Brittain

    29 de diciembre de 1893 – 29 de marzo de 1970

    Vera Brittain fue una escritora y pacifista británica cuya obra se centra principalmente en la experiencia personal y el comentario social. Su escritura a menudo explora el impacto de la guerra y la urgencia del activismo por la paz, distinguiéndose por su estilo sincero y reflexivo. A través de sus talentos literarios, ofrece profundas perspectivas sobre la resiliencia humana frente a la tragedia y una defensa incansable de la no violencia. Su obra constituye una contribución significativa a la literatura del siglo XX, que sigue resonando en los lectores por su mensaje moral.

    Vera Brittain
    The Women At Oxford
    Born 1925
    Because You Died
    Testament of youth
    Testament of Friendship
    Letters from a lost generation
    • Because You Died

      • 192 páginas
      • 7 horas de lectura

      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 beautiful volume of remembrance to mark the anniversary of the Armistice.

      Because You Died2010
      4,1
    • Letters from a lost generation

      • 448 páginas
      • 16 horas de lectura

      This poignant work collects letters written from 1913 to 1918 between Vera Brittain and four young men - her fiance Roland Leighton, her younger brother Edward, and their two close friends, Victor Richardson and Geoffrey Thurlow - who were killed in World War I. While this correspondence inspired Testament of Youth, Brittain's classic memoir of her wartime experiences, most of the letters are published here for the first time.

      Letters from a lost generation1998
      4,6
    • Born 1925

      • 392 páginas
      • 14 horas de lectura
      Born 19251982
      3,8
    • Testament of youth

      • 661 páginas
      • 24 horas de lectura

      "Testament of Youth is one of the most famous and best loved autobiographies of the First World War. Both a passionate record of those agonizing years and a loving memorial to a lost generation, in spirit and impact it as powerful as those other classics of World War I, All quiet on the westrer front and Goodbye to all that."--back cover.

      Testament of youth1980
      4,1