Vera Brittain's classic World War I memoir "Testament of Youth" -- with its particular focus on Brittain's life-altering time as a field nurse during the war -- makes the jump to the big screen in a ...

VERA BRITTAIN AND THE FIRST WORLD WAR: THE STORY OF ‘TESTAMENT OF YOUTH’ By Mark Bostridge Bloomsbury, $27, 252 pages, illustrated TESTAMENT OF YOUTH By Vera Brittain Penguin Books, $18, 661 pages It ...

Anyone looking for a powerful summer read should pick up a copy of Vera Brittain’s 1933 “Testament of Youth.” The memoir is a cross between shows like Downton Abbey, films like Galipoli, and ...

Alicia Vikander (as Vera Brittain) and Kit Harrington (as Roland Leighton) in a scene from Testament of Youth. What makes you hate a movie? In the 1990 début issue of Entertainment Weekly, the ...

Ernest Hemingway’s “A Farewell to Arms” and Erich Maria Remarque’s “All Quiet on the Western Front” chronicled the devastation of World War I — from the male point of view. “Testament of Youth,” Vera ...

Director: James Kent; Screenwriter: Juliette Towhidi; Starring: Alicia Vikander, Kit Harington, Taron Egerton, Colin Morgan, Dominic West, Emily Watson; Running time: 130 mins; Certificate: 12A After ...

Now that the film has already seen a release in the UK, it's time for US audiences to get familiar with director James Kent’s new film Testament of Youth. The film is based on Vera Brittain’s First ...

Swedish actress Alicia Vikander talks about her lead role in the new film Testament of Youth, which tells the story of war from a woman's perspective. War films are usually about men. They're often ...

Watch an exclusive clip from the film "Testament of Youth," starring Alicia Vikander, Kit Harington and Taron Egerton. Photo: Sony Pictures Classics It has been only a couple of months since Alicia ...

Vera Brittain, an upper-crust Englishwoman whose experiences as a nurse in World War I turned her into a pacifist, was known to my generation primarily as the mother of Shirley Williams, a similarly ...