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Because You Died: Poetry And Prose Of The First World And Beyond

by Vera Brittain

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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 ... Read more

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 beautiful volume of remembrance to mark the anniversary of the Armistice.

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File size7.88 X 5 X 0.75 in
Print pages192
PublisherLittle, Brown Book Group
Publication date February 1, 2011
LanguageEnglish
ISBN9781844084142
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Vera Brittain
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Born in 1893, Vera Brittain won an exhibition to Somerville College, Oxford, in 1914, but a year later abandoned her studies to enlist as a VAD nurse. She served throughout the war, working in London,...

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