I know one husband and wife who, whatever the official reasons given to the court for the break up of their marriage, were really divorced because th… - Vera Brittain

It is harder now the spring days are beginning to come... to keep the thought of war before one’s mind - especially here, where there is always a kind of dreamy spell which makes one feel that nothing poignant and terrible can ever come near. Winter departs so early here... ”

I have tried to write the exact truth as I saw and see it about both myself and other people, since a book of this kind has no value unless it is honest... It is not by accident that what I have written constitutes, in effect, the indictment of a civilisation.

It is still difficult to realise that the moment has actually come at last when 1 shall have no peace of mind any more until the War is over.