"Vert Brittain's classic memoir of the cataclysmic effect of the First World War on her generation. 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. One of the most famous autobiographies of the First World War, this is Brittain's account of how she survived the period; how she lost the man she loved; how she nursed the wounded and how she emerged into an altered world. A passionate record of a lost generation, it made Vera Brittain one of the best-loved writers of her time"--Provided by publisher.

First published by Virago Press in 1978. First published by Victor Gollancz Ltd. in 1933. Sequel: Testament of experience. Reprint of the 1933 ed.; with new preface.