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Chronicle of Youth: Great War Diary, 1913-1917
Door Vera Brittain
Categorie | WO I |
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Boeknummer | #404737-ZB27 |
Titel | Chronicle of Youth: Great War Diary, 1913-1917 |
Auteur | Brittain, Vera |
Boektype | Paperback |
Uitgeverij | London : Weidenfeld & Nicolson |
Jaar van uitgave | 2002 |
ISBN10 | 1842125427 |
ISBN13 | 9781842125427 |
Taal | Engels |
Beschrijving | Paperback, illustrated with some photographs in b/w, 8vo. |
Samenvatting | Vera Brittain¿s bestselling TESTAMENT OF YOUTH was based on her own copious diaries, which have a much greater intimacy than the account written for publication. These are those diaries. They begin in the carefree summer of 1913 with a blossoming romance and earnest discussions about the purpose of life and the nature of God ¿ but not about the onset of war, which takes them by surprise. The diary entries begin to darken rapidly. Her brother, her fiancé and most of their young men friends are killed in the war. Vera herself goes from knitting helmets and bandaging classes to abandoning her studies at Oxford to train as a nurse. She spent the remainder of the war nursing war-wounded men, among them German prisoners. Her diaries, written in London, Malta and France, cont... (Lees verder)ain moving descriptions of battle scenes and Zeppelin horrors over London. |
Pagina's | 426 |
Conditie | Goed — Sticker remains on back cover. |
Prijs | € 10,00 |
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