Testament of Youth Much of what we know and feel about the First World War we owe to Vera Brittain"s elegiac yet unsparing book, which set a standard for memoirists from Martha Gellhorn to Lillian Hellman. Abandoning her studies at Oxford in 1915 to enlist as a nurse in the armed services, Brittain served in London, in Malta, and on the Western Front. By war"s end she had lost virtually everyone she loved. Testament... Full description