![]() As Craig Gibson has recently argued in B ehind the Front: British Soldiers and French Civilians, 1914–1918, ‘too often those whose sacrifices and responsibilities continued after the end of the hostilities, often women, usually out of history’s gaze… are over-looked.’ The Trauma of Those Left Behind For Brittain, what follows is a torrid four years, which see her sacrifice her education at Oxford and lose many of those closest to her, including her brother and fiancée.īoth the film and the book remind us of sometimes under-represented aspects of the Great War – the Home Front and women. ![]() The palpable excitement and optimism of her pre-war world is destroyed by the commencement of conflict. She is about to start at Oxford University, where she will spend a number of happy years with her brother Edward (Taron Egerton) and new love interest (Kit Harington). The film charts the experiences of a young Vera Brittain (Alicia Vikander), a highly intelligent proto-suffragette. However, the film’s themes and critical reception do present an interesting point of discussion. It has received mixed reviews and the comments of this historian are unlikely to add much to the discussions regarding its artistic merits. ![]() ![]() The most recent adaptation of Testament of Youth, Vera Brittain’s memoir of her experience of the Great War, recently premiered at the London Film Festival. ![]()
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