Testament of YouthIn 1914, Vera Brittain was 20, and as war was declared, she was preparing to study at Oxford. Four years later, her lifeand the life of her whole generationhad changed in a way that would have been unimaginable in the tranquil pre war era. Testament of Youth, one of the most famous autobiographies of the First World War, is Brittain's account of how she survived those agonising years; how she lost the man she loved; how she nursed the wounded, and how