Product Description: PROLOGUE T A THEN the idea of this book first came to VVme in the summer of 1940, my purpose was to make it a wartime variety of Priestleys English Journey. At that time the Battle for Britain was only beginning, and the Battle for London still several weeks ahead...read more

Contains two short books 'Seeds of Chaos' and 'Humiliation with Honour'. This book is inspired by the events that occurred in Hamburg on the night of 27 July, 1943. Several square miles of Hamburg's residential and commercial heart of the city were engulfed in a firestorm which burned for several hours at a temperature of 1,000 degrees centigrade.

Vera Brittain's bestselling Testament of Youth was based on these copious diaries-which have far greater intimacy and immediacy. Beginning in the carefree summer of 1913, it follows the shocking onset of war, and the tragic loss of her brother, her fiancé, and most of their young friends in the fighting. Vera herself abandoned Oxford to train as a nurse, and spent the rest of the war tending to the wounded-including German prisoners. Written in London, Malta, and France, it captures all the war's horrors and Brittain's emergence as a committed pacifist. "One of the rare books which are a landmark for a whole generation."-Times Literary Supplement.

Bright and vivacious, Daphne Lethbridge is back at Oxford after a stint of volunteer work. World War I has ravaged Europe, but it has done nothing to daunt her spirit, and she plunges headlong into the whirl of college life. Her enjoyment, though, is soured by her cynical contemporary Virginia Dennison, who spars with Daphne on every occasion. Daphne seems to triumph over Virginia when she marries a rising political star, but it's not long before she begins to realize the bitter truth of her marriage. It takes a chance encounter with her old enemy for her disillusionment to give way to a mature understanding of love and friendship.

Product Description: When Janet Harding marries a kindly vicar, she discovers the constraints of life with a clergyman and throws herself into the suffragette movement. But her dreams of emancipation give way to the responsibilities of an overburdened wife and mother...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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Product Description: In 1915 Vera Brittain abandoned her studies at Oxford to enlist as a nurse in the armed services. She served in a number of World War theatres - in London, Malta and at the western front in France. By the war's end, all those close to her were dead, and she had witnessed the results of modern combat, the destruction and the suffering...read more

Product Description: This diary covers the Second World War as seen by a housewife, living mainly in London, who was furiously writing books, letters and articles. She was an active pacifist, much sought after as a speaker and lecturer, and a woman at the centre of London's socialand political life...read more

An autobiographical account of a young nurse's involvement in World War I describes how the author left her studies at Oxford to enlist as a nurse for the armed services; her work in London, in Malta, and on the Western front; her personal experiences; and the lasting influence of the First World War on her life. Reissue.

The English author, pacifist, and feminist offers personal insights into her life, discussing her marriage, family, and development as a writer together with the impact of the Second World War

The author traces her friendship with the author, Winifred Holtby, from their meeting at Oxford to Holtby's death at the age of thirty-seven