{"product_id":"vera-brittain-a-life","title":"Paul Berry: Vera Brittain [1996] paperback","description":"Vere Britain (1893-1970) is most vividly remembered for one of the best loved autobiographies of the Great War, TESTAMENT OF YOUTH. Written with the co-operation of her daughter Shirley Williams, this candid biography draws on unpublished letters and reminiscences to illuminate the life and personality of a courageous and complex woman whose views on war and marriage were ahead of her time. It reveals new facts about ill-fated engagement with Robert Leighton and about the circumstances of her brother's death in Italy; about her semi-detached marriage with George Caitlin, her close friendship with the novelist Winifred Holtby and a passionate entanglement with her New York publisher. Her uncompromising pacifism in WWII led to her condemnation of the Allies saturation bombing of Germany, and to her being considered a dangerous subversive, refused a visa her children in the USA where they had been evacuated. A brilliant portrait which takes us from the idealistic girl to the ambitious and combative survivor of two years and ultimatley to the older woman of disarming honesty and integrity.","brand":"Berry, Paul \u0026 Bostridge, Mark","offers":[{"title":"Good","offer_id":48992519684435,"sku":"XG80712673150","price":7.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0616\/4001\/6057\/files\/berry-paul-bostridge-mark-vera-brittain-a-life-xg80712673150-57230194770259.jpg?v=1727984651","url":"https:\/\/keatsandchapman.info\/products\/vera-brittain-a-life","provider":"Chapters Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}