Bringing together a selection of Vera Brittain’s poetry and prose, some of it never published before, this collection commemorates the men she lovedfiancé, brother, and two close
friendswho served and died in World War I. It draws on her experiences as a Voluntary Aid Detachment nurse in London, Malta, and France, and illustrates her growing conviction of
the wickedness of all war. Illustrated with many extraordinary photographs from Brittain’s own albums, and edited with a new introduction by Mark Bostridge, this is an elegy to men
who lost their lives in a bloody conflict.
