For many Americans, World War I is a sort of warm-up act for what would follow, serious business to be sure, but not the noble, world-saving enterprise that World War II would become — not OUR war.

Early on in "Testament of Youth," Vera Brittain (Alicia Vikander) tells her future fiance what she thinks of a poem he has written. "It's well-crafted," she says, but "it was a little dry ... I couldn ...

One military historian hopes the new movie based on the war will inspire watchers to read the book. [Youtube] Anyone looking for a powerful summer read should pick up a copy of Vera Brittain’s 1933 ...

The World War I that has survived in our cultural memory is made up of lines of muddy trenches swallowing a generation of young men. And the voices that emerged from the war and helped cement that ...

A Woman in Love and War: Vera Brittain was a television docudrama on the life of Vera Brittain and her experiences in the First World War. It was first broadcast on Remembrance Sunday 2008 on BBC One.

“Testament of Youth,” a British drama set during the first world war, is a beautifully composed film, so much so that you wonder, at first, if it might be too pretty for its subject. And then, the ...

“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 ...

Several years ago, I began collecting books by participants in the First World War. I don’t have a lot of them — yet — and the ones I do have are not particularly rare (I think). Some of them have ...

Anyone looking for a powerful summer read should pick up a copy of Vera Brittain’s 1933 “Testament of Youth.” The memoir is a cross between shows like Downton Abbey, films like Galipoli, and ...