I have tried to write the exact truth as I saw and see it a… - Vera Brittain

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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.

Vera Brittain

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About Vera Brittain

Vera Mary Brittain (December 29, 1893 – March 29, 1970) was an English writer, feminist and pacifist, best remembered as the author of the best-selling 1933 memoir Testament of Youth, recounting her experiences during World War I and the growth of her ideology of pacifism.

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Alternative Names: Vera Mary Brittain • Vera (Mary) Brittain

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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 the husband believed that nobody ought to read while he was talking and the wife that nobody ought to talk while she was reading.

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.

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