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Because You Died: Poetry and Prose of the First World War and After

Vera Brittain, edited by Mark Bostridge

Because You Died: Poetry and Prose of the First World War and After

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ISBN:
9781844084135

Virago

A Virago title

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 volume of remembrance to mark the ninetieth anniversary of the Armistice.

Reviews

PRAISE FOR TESTAMENT OF YOUTH

  • 'A unique record of one woman's experience of twenty-five of the most cataclysmic years in modern history' T.L.S
  • 'A haunting elegy for a lost generation.' THE TIMES

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Published 03/11/2008