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Books are listed in order of year of publication - newest titles are at the top. There are 4 books in this booklist
£16.99 paperback (2022) - ISBN 13: 9780349015019 | ISBN 10: 0349015015
Shortlisted for the Whitbread Biography Award, the NCR Prize for non-fiction and the Fawcett Prize. "This thoughtful portrait of a dauntless feminist and pacifist combines the readability of a novel with the authenticity of fact."(Lyndall Gordon, ... more
View book details£8.99 paperback (2010) - ISBN 13: 9781844084142 | ISBN 10: 1844084140
Perhaps some day the sun will shine again,And I shall see that still the skies are blue,And feel once more I do not live in vain,Although bereft of You... So wrote twenty-two-year-old Vera Brittain, mouring the loss of her fiance Roland Leighton on t ... more
View book details£12.99 paperback (2008) - ISBN 13: 9781844085705 | ISBN 10: 1844085708
"Nothing in the papers, not the most vivid and heart-rending descriptions, have made me realise war like your letters."(Vera Brittain to her fiance, Roland Leighton, 17 April 1915) Letters from a Lost Generation is a memorable selection of letters ... more
View book details£14.99 paperback (2004) - ISBN 13: 9780860680352 | ISBN 10: 0860680355
In 1914 Vera Brittain was eighteen and, as war was declared, she was preparing to study at Oxford. Four years later her life - and the life of her whole generation - had changed in a way that was unimaginable in the tranquil pre-war era. Testament o ... more
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