Generazione perduta

It's another irony of that most ironic of conflicts that the greatest account of how 1914-18 was lived comes not from a male writer out of the trenches, or from some politician familiar with the negotiations, but instead from a middle-class girl from Derbyshire who experienced the war first as a wai Leggi tutto

Where to start? I started reading Testament of Youth mainly for the information on WW1, not knowing that apart from suffering heartbreaking losses and being a VAD nurse, Vera Brittain also was a feminist of the first hour and a writer of great astuteness. In consequence she proceeded to reduce me to o Leggi tutto

Videoreseña: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UFD3w... Creo que voy a tardar en poner en orden mis ideas con este libro. Hay partes de las memorias de Brittain que me han impresionado mucho, personas que aquí aparecen a través de cartas, diarios y recuerdos que tampoco olvidaré, pero por otro lado he Leggi tutto

This book has been on my to be read list for over thirty years and I really should not have left it this long to read it. It is much better known these days following the recent film and a TV adaptation some years ago. It is the account of Vera Brittain’s wartime experiences, from a sheltered middle Leggi tutto

Shirley Williams was born in 1930. She is in fact The Baroness Williams of Crosby.She was also Leader of the Liberal Democrats in the House of Lords, from 2001 and 2004.From 2007 to 2010, she acted as Adviser on Nuclear Proliferation to Prime Minister Gordon Brown. The above quote was written to sho Leggi tutto

Hay muchas novelas sobre la Primera Guerra Mundial (no tanto como de la segunda, pero bastantes), pero esta crónica de Vera Brittain, que fue enfermera en el frente, se siente diferente y fresca, incluso hoy en día. Porque siempre pensamos que nuestra generación es distinta, que nuestra juventud es Leggi tutto

This book is great and painful, a memoir by Vera Brittain, the English writer, mostly a wartime memoir based on her experiences during the First World War Britain was an Oxford student when World War I began, volunteered as a nurse and was a witness on the vicious war and its victims, lost two of her Leggi tutto

Vera Brittain was, at that time, a bit younger that my daughter is now. Her elder brother Edward was then also one or two years younger than my son today. Sometimes I still see my children as babies, scratching their backs when they need to relax. My daughter had just finished her first year of colle Leggi tutto

Whenever I think of the War to-day, it is not as summer but always as winter; always as cold and darkness and discomfort, and an intermittent warmth of exhilarating excitement which made us irrationally exult in all three. Its permanent symbol, for me, is a candle stuck in the neck of a bottle, t

Estas memorias, que abarcan las dos primeras décadas del siglo XX, constituyen un testimonio único de cómo se vivió la Primera Guerra Mundial desde la retaguardia; cómo las mujeres y la sociedad civil que permaneció en Reino Unido se desesperaban mientras sus seres queridos luchaban en el frente. Es Leggi tutto