Books

 

Testament of Youth, Vera Brittain

 

Letters from a Lost Generation, First World War Letters of Vera Brittain and Four Friends, edited by Alan Bishop and Mark Bostridge

 

Because You Died – Poetry and Prose of the First World War and After, Vera Brittain, edited and introduced by Mark Bostridge

 

Vera Brittain and the First World War – The Story of Testament of Youth, Mark Bostridge

 

Vera Brittain – A Life, Paul Berry and Mark Bostridge

 

One Voice – Pacifist Writings from the Second World War,  Vera Brittain

 

Born 1925, Vera Brittain – a novel 

 

Honourable Estate, Vera Brittain – a novel

 

England’s Hour, Vera Brittain – an autobiography 1939-1941

 

Testament of Experience, Vera Brittain  – the sequel to Testament of Youth

 

Account Rendered, Vera Brittain – a novel

 

Testament of a Generation – The Journalism of Vera Brittain and Winifred Holtby, edited by Paul Berry and Alan Bishop

 

Chronicle of Youth, Great War Diary 1913-1917, Vera Brittain, edited by Alan Bishop

 

The Cambridge Companion to War Writing, edited by Kate

McLoughin

 

Not forgotten, Neil Oliver

 

Great War Fashion, Lucy Adlington

 

Fighting on the Home Front, the Legacy of Women in World War One, Kate Adie

 

This is a different sort of post for me; it is a list of books that I used for my recent talk on Vera Brittain and the First World War. This was a woman who did so much more than I had the space and time to cover in my talk, as a feminist and a pacifist during the Second World War. If you are interested in Vera, the book to read is definitely  Testament of Youth. Not an easy read, or a cheerful one, but a real book of determination to survive and flourish despite loss and other challenges.