Because You Died
Author | : Vera Brittain |
Publisher | : Virago |
Total Pages | : 240 |
Release | : 2010-02-04 |
ISBN-10 | : 9780748118410 |
ISBN-13 | : 0748118411 |
Rating | : 4/5 (10 Downloads) |
Book excerpt: This collection of Vera Brittain's poetry and prose, some of it never published before, commemorates the men she loved - fiancé, brother and two close friends - who served and died in the First World War. It draws on her experiences as a VAD nurse in London, Malta, and France, and illustrates her growing conviction of the wickedness of all war. Illustrated with many extraordinary photographs from Brittain's own albums, and edited with a new introduction by Mark Bostridge, Because You Died is an elegy to men who lost their lives in a bloody conflict, and a volume of remembrance to mark the ninetieth anniversary of the Armistice.