Testament of Youth by Vera Brittain

Testament of Youth“When I was a girl …. I imagined that life was individual, one’s own affair; that the events happening in the world outside were important enought in their own way, but were personally quite irrelevant.”

I don’t quite know what to say about this book.  My opinions will perhaps go against the effusive praise of Brittain’s feminist ideas and wartime philosophy, if not her actual wartime experience, which, of course, is personal and incomparable.  But the way she went about communicating her experience and her attitude therewithin deserves some examination so I will attempt a balanced evaluation.

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