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Chronicle of Youth: Great War Diary, 1913-1917

Door Vera Brittain

Categorie
WO I
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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