Brittain, Vera (edited by Alan Bishop with Terry Smart), - CHRONICLE OF YOUTH - War Diary 1913-1917.

Victor Gollancz, London, 1981, 1st edn., 382pp, 8pp half tone photo ills., map in text, maroon cloth lettered in gilt at spine, photo pictorial dustwrapper, the author's 'Testament of Youth', a best seller since first published in 1933, an account of the years 1900-1925 was based on her diaries. This book contains her diaries of the years 1913-17 published for the first time, a moving account of the daily thoughts from the jingoistic girl, urging her family and friends to enlist to her realisation of the horror of war, abandonment of a place at Oxford to train as a nurse, and the loss of her fiancée and brother, very faintly bumped at upper and lower edges, dustwrapper: unpriced, very lightly rubbed at tips, very good plus in a very good plus dustwrapper,

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