These two books couldn't be more different in the structure of their content and yet, they are amongst the most powerful WW1 books I have ever read.
If you only read two books that feature WW1
Then let them be these...
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| Harper Colins 2006 |
Told in the voice of a young soldier, the story follows 24 hours in his life on the front line during World War I, and captures his memories as he looks back over his life.
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| Virago 2014 |
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 life of her whole generation - had changed in a way that was unimaginable in the tranquil pre-war era.
'Testament of Youth', one of the most famous autobiographies of the First World War, is Brittain's 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.
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