One military historian hopes the new movie based on the war will inspire watchers to read the book. Vera Brittain’s 1930’s Great War Memoir Resonates Powerfully [Youtube] Anyone looking for a powerful ...

“Inspirational stories for the damned” is the label given by one blinded soldier to survival tales like his in “Testament of Youth” — it’s also an apt description of this rousing, robust adaptation of ...

BORN 1925 (320 pp.)—Vera Britain —Macmillan ($3.50). British Vera Brittain is a born tract writer who persists in doing novels. In 1933, she made her reputation with Testament of Youth, a passionate, ...

When England’s Vera Brittain was discouraged from pursuing an education because of her sex, she went to Oxford anyway. When both her brother and her first love enlisted to fight in World War I, she ...