'Remains one of the most powerful and widely read war memoirs of all time' GUARDIAN 'Vera
Brittain's heart-rending account of the way her generation's lives changed is still as shocking
and moving as ever' SUNDAY TELEGRAPH 'A heartbreaking account of the impact of the First
World War on a stout-hearted high-minded young woman' SUNDAY TIMES 'Should be compulsive
reading' DAILY MAIL What you have striven for will not end in nothing all that you have
done and been will not be wasted for it will be a part of me as long as I live and I shall
remember always. In 1914 Vera Brittain was twenty and as war was declared she was preparing
to study at Oxford. Four years later her life - and the lives of a whole generation - had been
unimaginably changed. O ne of the most famous autobiographies of the First World War this
is her 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 to become one of the best-loved writers
of her time.
