Because You Died Poetry and Prose of the First World War and After Bringing together a selection of Vera Brittain s poetry and prose some of it never published before this collection commemorates the men she loved fianc brother and two close friends who served a
Bringing together a selection of Vera Brittain s poetry and prose, some of it never published before, this collection commemorates the men she loved fianc , brother, and two close friends who served and died in World War I It draws on her experiences as a Voluntary Aid Detachment nurse in London, Malta, and France, and illustrates her growing conviction of the wickednessBringing together a selection of Vera Brittain s poetry and prose, some of it never published before, this collection commemorates the men she loved fianc , brother, and two close friends who served and died in World War I It draws on her experiences as a Voluntary Aid Detachment 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, this is an elegy to men who lost their lives in a bloody conflict, and a volume of remembrance to mark the 90th anniversary of the Armistice.
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Vera Brittain
Vera Mary Brittain was a British writer and pacifist, best remembered as the author of the best selling 1933 memoir Testament of Youth, recounting her experiences during World War I and the beginning of her journey towards pacifism.Her daughter is Shirley Vivian Teresa Brittain Williams, Baroness Williams of Crosby, who is a British politician and academic who represents the Liberal Democrats.