First air date: Nov 04, 1979
Episode duration: 00h 48m
Rating: (7.3) based on 3 votes
Status: Ended
Seasons: 1
Episodes: 5
Starring: Cheryl Campbell, Emrys James, Jane Wenham, Peter Woodward, Rosalie Crutchley
Created by: Jonathan Powell
Genre: Drama, War & Politics

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.

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