October 1914: Vera Brittain arrives for the new academic year at Oxford

TESTAMENT OF YOUTH by Vera Brittain

We watched this series here at home recently and it has changed my life. Vera Brittain has changed everything for me.




Here is the series, the older (and, IMO, the better) version of this - I see that a more current 2014 version is out but from what I glimpsed of it, it is nothing like this very well-done version that is a little older. So here are the 6 parts of


"Testament of Youth"
by Vera Brittain

PART 1 of 6:


PART 2 of 6:


PART 3 of 6:


PART 4 of 6:


PART 5 of 6:


PART 6 of 6:


Vera Brittain info on wikipedia.

Info on Vera at the Peace Pledge Union Project page.



Left: Roland Leighton Right: Vera Brittain

This is a story for the ages. A love story. A story of war heroes and heroines. A story of loss. A story of high ideals and hard lessons learned.

Cheers for the Vera Brittains of this World!

Bex






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