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Testament of Youth: An Autobiobraphical Study of the Years 1900-1925
出版社： Penguin Putnam Inc.
書林書號：
20210625
作者：
Brittain, Vera/ Williams, Shirley
定價：
630
會員價：
$536
ISBN：
9780143108382
出版年份：
2015
裝訂：
平裝
總頁數：
0
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故事描述1914年一名英國女子薇拉不顧家人的傳統思想，並在弟弟的鼓勵下，與聰明過人的男友羅南下定決心要一同達成考上牛津大學的夢想，只不過戰爭的到來，讓她與男友一同考上牛津的夢想從此破滅。就在年輕男子皆被徵召為國出征的情況下，薇拉只好放棄了自己最愛的寫作，以及成為作家的夢想，自願前往戰區擔任護士一職。途中不僅見證了戰爭的殘忍與無情，也目睹了家人與男友的生離死別，而薇拉不因此頹喪而迷失方向，反而將自身的經歷化為文字，靠著信念寫出震撼人心的回憶錄…

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In 1915 Vera Brittain abandoned her studies at Oxford to enlist as a nurse in the armed forces, serving in London, in Malta, and at the Western Front in France. By war’s end, all those closest to her were dead, and she had witnessed firsthand the destruction and suffering of modern combat. 

Much of what we know and feel about the First World War we owe to Brittain’s Testament of Youth. In this elegiac yet unsparing memoir, Brittain focused on the men and women who came of age as war broke out, exploring their politics, their hopes, and their fatal idealism. Acclaimed by the Times Literary Supplement as a book that helped “both form and define the mood of its time,” this searing portrait is also a testament to every generation irrevocably changed by war.
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