Vera Brittain Książki

The outbreak of the First World War in 1914 irrevocably altered many lives, including that of Vera Brittain, an Oxford undergraduate who left her studies to serve as a nurse in military hospitals in England and France. The war was a shattering experience for her; she witnessed the horrors of combat and lost the four men closest to her—her fiancé, Roland Leighton, brother Edward, and friends Geoffrey Thurlow and Victor Nicholson—who all perished on the battlefield. A collection of previously unpublished letters between Brittain and these young men chronicles her relationships with them, revealing the disillusionment with the idealized glory of patriotic duty that quickly gave way to the grim reality of trench warfare. The letters are lively and dramatic, infused with a curious optimism despite the war's awfulness. In one poignant letter to Roland in December 1915, just days before his death, Vera expressed hope for the future, stating, "Somehow I feel the end is not destined to be here and now." Following Roland's death, and later those of Victor and Geoffrey, her letters take on a raw intensity as she focuses on her brother, a Military Cross recipient, until his death on the Italian Front in June 1918. These letters formed the basis of Brittain's remarkable autobiography, bringing to life the voices of a lost generation whose words risk being forgotten as the war recedes from memory.

"Testament of Youth is one of the most famous and best loved autobiographies of the First World War. Both a passionate record of those agonizing years and a loving memorial to a lost generation, in spirit and impact it as powerful as those other classics of World War I, All quiet on the westrer front and Goodbye to all that."--back cover.

This collection of Vera Brittain's poetry and prose, some of it never published before, commemorates the men she loved - fiancé, brother and two close friends - who served and died in the First World War. It draws on her experiences as a VAD nurse in London, Malta, and France, and illustrates her growing conviction of the wickedness of all war. Illustrated with many extraordinary photographs from Brittain's own albums, and edited with a new introduction by Mark Bostridge, BECAUSE YOU DIED is an elegy to men who lost their lives in a bloody conflict, and a beautiful volume of remembrance to mark the anniversary of the Armistice.

Román sa zaoberá životnými osudmi Francisa Halkina, hudobníka a majiteľa továrne. Začína sa prvou svetovou vojnou, z ktorej si Halkin odnesie poruchu duševného zdravia. Ona má potom osudný vplyv na niektoré jeho počiny v živote a jej aj príčinou tragického zakončenia jeho prvého manželstva. Halkin sa dostane pred porotu, je odsúdený a musí ťažko pykať. Vtedy už zúri druhá svetová vojna. Halkin si trest odpyká, nájde znovú svoje duševné zdravie i správne miesto v živote. Ožení sa druhý raz. Predsa odchádza na bojisko v Severnej Afrike, celkom preniknutý poznaním svojho nového životného poznania.