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Big Ideas: Testament of Youth: An Autobiographical Study of the Years 1900-1925. By Vera Brittain

Ruth Davies

Nurse Education Today

Swansea University Author: Ruth Davies

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This 'Big Ideas' shows how Brittains experiences of working as a VAD nurse during World War One shaped her lifelong commitment to pacifism. This, together with the loss of her fiancé, brother and two close friends was to result in an unique autobiography which depicts a 'lost generati...

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Published in: Nurse Education Today
Published: 2014
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