Testament of Youth
1979
7.5
1 Season
“A time when war overshadowed everything but hope”
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A dramatization of Vera Brittain's 1933 autobiography Testament of Youth—a memorial to a generation devastated by WWI—chronicles her experiences as a nurse in London and Malta and at the front lines in France. It opens with 18-year-old Vera, the genteel daughter of a paper-mill owner, nurturing "hopes of escaping from provincial young ladyhood." Her plan is to attend Oxford.
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1x5 - 1918
1979-12-0255m
Vera returns to Oxford, where she strikes up a friendship with a fellow student, before beginning to concentrate on writing.
