A Farewell to Arms
An American ambulance driver, an English nurse, and the Italian front — the Great War's great love story.
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Testament of Youth
by Vera Brittain
The real love, hospitals, waiting, and loss behind the First World War.
- 1933
The story, briefly
Spoiler-freeBrittain recounts nursing during the First World War and losing the young men she loved to it.
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A restrained companion
The real love, hospitals, waiting, and loss behind the First World War.
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