- Medical aspects of World War, 1914-1918, English Personal narratives, Personal narratives, English, British Personal narratives
A vivid and passionate record of the years 1900 to 1925, this is Vera Brittain's haunting autobiography - a portrait of a young girl's life in prewar England and a heartbreaking document of the holocaust of war.
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Earnest, grave, classical in form and overwhelming.
- earnestironic
- gravecomic
- classical in formformally daring
- cooloverwhelming
- unpretentiousprestige
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- Author
- Vera Brittain
- First published
- 1933
- Pages
- 661
- Publisher
- Chivers, Putnam Publishing Group, The, The Macmillan company
- Editions
- 22
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780872236721
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“WHEN THE Great War broke out, it came to me not as a superlative tragedy, but as an interruption of the most exasperating kind to my personal plans.”
Vera Mary Brittain was a British feminist and pacifist writer with a background in Staffordshire, Cheshire, and Derbyshire (<a href=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vera_Brittain>Wikipedia</a>).
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