{"product_id":"9780143039235","title":"Testament of Youth","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eSoon To Be A Major Motion Picture Starring Alicia Vikander and Kit Harington\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMuch of what we know and feel about the First World War we owe to Vera Brittain’s elegiac yet unsparing book, which set a standard for memoirists from Martha Gellhorn to Lillian Hellman. Abandoning her studies at Oxford in 1915 to enlist as a nurse in the armed services, Brittain served in London, in Malta, and on the Western Front. By war’s end she had lost virtually everyone she loved. Testament of Youth is both a record of what she lived through and an elegy for a vanished generation. Hailed by the \u003cb\u003eTimes Literary Supplement\u003c\/b\u003e as a book that helped \"both form and define the mood of its time,\" it speaks to any generation that has been irrevocably changed by war.\u003cbr\u003e* New introduction by Brittain's biographer examines her struggles to write about her experiences and the book's reception in England and America\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Penguin Publishing Group","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47015956480240,"sku":"9780143039235","price":21.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780143039235_p0.jpg?v=1763656901","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780143039235","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}