图书标签: 歷史 史 Letters 節選 2011
发表于2024-11-08
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This poignant work collects correspondence written from 1913 to 1918 between Vera Brittain and four young men -- her fiance Roland Leighton, her younger brother Edward and their two close friends, Victor Richardson and Geoffrey Thurlow -- who were all killed in action during World War I.
The correspondence presents a remarkable and profoundly moving portrait of five idealistic youths caught up in the cataclysm of war. Spanning the duration of the war, the letters vividly convey the uncertainty, confusion, and almost unbearable suspense of the tumultuous war years. They offer important historical insights by illuminating both male and female perspectives and allow the reader to witness and understand the Great War from a variety of viewpoints, including those of the soldier in the trenches, the volunteer nurse in military hospitals, and even the civilian population on the home front. As Brittain wrote to Roland Leighton in 1915, shortly after he arrived on the Western Front: "Nothing in the papers, not the most vivid and heartbreaking descriptions, have made me realize war like your letters."
Yet this collection is, above all, a dramatic account of idealism, disillusionment, and personal tragedy as revealed by the voices of four talented schoolboys who went almost immediately from public school in Britain to the battlefields of France, Belgium, and Italy. Linking each of their compelling stories is the passionate and eloquent voice of Vera Brittain, who gave up her own studies to enlist in the armed services as a nurse.
As World War I fades from living memory, these letters are a powerful and stirring testament to a generation forever shattered and haunted by grief, loss, and promise unfulfilled.
audio book. 每次希望过后的绝望真是让人失望????
评分@Audiobook 竟然是真實的當時的信件. 戰爭之前擔心的也是Roland媽媽會不會喜歡自己; 考試結果; 會不會進Oxford這樣的事情 唉 還有沒讀完的書和沒討論出結果的爭論呢 (就是audiobook有時候聽不出來除了Vera是誰回的信 "I feel like this war was claiming them all, the eloquent, the young, the beautiful and brave, just like the French revolution did, but even more pitilessly and universally, can anything justify that?"
评分一战背景下,几个青年的书信。写着写着,人就没有了。
评分一战背景下,几个青年的书信。写着写着,人就没有了。
评分Audiobook. Very true and very plain with a sad end.
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Letters From A Lost Generation pdf epub mobi txt 电子书 下载 2024