Testament of Youth

• TV Show
• 1979-11-04
• EN
• Ended
• 0h 55m
• GB
• Drama - War & Politics

• 7.3
• 3

Production

BBC

Tagline

A time when war overshadowed everything but hope

Storyline

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.