Testament of Youth: An Autobiographical Study Of The Years 1900-1925

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Classic memoir of the First World War.

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Please try again later. Kindle Edition Verified Purchase. Great book - one of the best memoirs about WW1 that I've ever read. Vera Brittain conveys the horrors and sadness of the War as well as it's pointless waste of human life with compassion and insight. It is a poignant and moving account of a generation catapulted into a conflict of which they had little real understanding of its underlying motives.

As the noisy group moved away from the door he sprang on to the footboard, clung to my hand and, drawing my face down to his, kissed my lips in a sudden vehemence of despair. And I kissed his, and just managed to whisper 'Good-bye! Although I had said that I would not, I stood by the door as the train left the station and watched him moving through the crowd.

But he never turned again. I imagined that life was individual, one's own affair; that the events happening in the world outside were important enough in their own way, but were personally quite irrelevant. Now, like the rest of my generation, I have had to learn again and again the terrible truth.

People's lives were entirely their own, perhaps--and more justifiably--when the world seemed enormous, and all its comings and goings were slow and deliberate. But this is so no longer, and never will be again, since man's inventions have eliminated so much of distance and time; for better, for worse, we are now each of us part of the surge and swell of great economic and political movements, and whatever we do, as individuals or as nations, deeply affects everyone else.

Can one make a book out of the very essence of one's self? Perhaps so, if one was left with one's gift stripped bare of all that made it worth having, and nothing else was left It makes one tense and hard and disagreeable, and this means that one repels and antagonises people, and then they dislike and avoid one--and that means more isolation and still more sorrow. I remember him, at the age of seven, as a rather solemn, brown-eyed little boy, with beautiful arched eyebrows which lately, to my infinite satisfaction, have begun to reproduce themselves, a pair of delicate question-marks, above the dark eyes of my five-year-old son.

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