Vera Brittain

Another example being Vera Brittain, who worked as a nurse at a Base Hospital, turned Casualty Clearing Station, in Etaples, France during the retreat in March 1918. Brittain described that during that month there were “gassed men on stretchers, clawing the air – dying men, reeking with mud and foul green-stained bandages, shrieking and withering in a grotesque travesty of manhood – dead men with fixed, empty eyes and shiny yellow faces…. Her world was a kingdom of death.” Brittain was living a…

the essence of war from a soldier’s point of view, but in the movie Testament of Youth, we get to experience it from an outer perspective. The story takes place in 1914, right before the beginning of the first World War. We meet our main characters: Vera, the main protagonist, her brother Edward, and their friend Geoffrey. They are enjoying the summer before their last term. The boys are both studying to become cadets and to, eventually, join the military. When the war commences, they are…

are men. ‘Can’t you see it isn’t decent, To flout and goad men into doing, What is not asked of you?’ Aside from the Jingoist writers, a whole range of poetry was written by women who worked on the war front as nurses among them being Vera Brittain who and Eva Dobell, Both who served in The Voluntary Aid Detachment (VAD) nurse. Some of their works reflect the things they encountered while working. Some were about heroism and some were about the pain and agony that the soldiers…

“Cruelty and power are our life’s strengths, and only in their weakness is there love”. The main theme in this book is Spy. Many at times, it is the women who are used as spies during militarism These women often get entrusted by the enemy and in turn help them to fulfil their mission. Pompey accomplished her mission as a Spy in Germany. The Girls of Slender Means. Long ago in 1945 all the nice people in England were poor, allowing for exceptions. The characters in the book, The…

from a variety of religious backgrounds. The majority were from traditional Church of England backgrounds. Three of the more famous poets – Sassoon, Rosenberg and Frankau – were Jewish. Frankau and Sassoon were to convert to Roman Catholicism. Vera Brittain was a “sceptic”. What united them all regardless of their faiths was the fact that they all started to question the whole aspect of God – if a God existed He could never allow such horror; if He did exist, why did allow men to suffer so much?…