Sentence examples for memoir testament from inspiring English sources

27 December 1915 Vera Brittain, author of the 1933 memoir 'Testament of Youth', recounting her experiences during the First World War: "I had just finished dressing when a message came to say that there was a telephone message for me.

Season 2 pays lip service to a war that slaughtered a generation and battered the British class system — there are allusions that recall "Regeneration," the World War I trilogy by Pat Barker, and Vera Brittain's memoir, "Testament of Youth".

In one of Roiphe's most telling anecdotes, Brittain, shortly after the publication of her celebrated World War I memoir, "Testament of Youth," puts aside a heartfelt letter from Catlin and absent-mindedly forgets to read it.

In her memoir, "Testament of Youth," the war nurse Vera Brittain recalled that "when the groans of anesthetized men made the ward a Bedlam," she kept herself going by murmuring under her breath two verses from "Dirge of Dead Sisters," Kipling's haunting poem dedicated to the dead nurses of the Boer Wars.

So was the poetry of Siegfried Sassoon, written during the conflict, RC Sherriff's great play Journey's End, written in the years after its end, or Vera Brittain's extraordinary memoir, Testament of Youth (1933), also the product of minds infected by leftwing academics?

Vera Brittain, who would later write the bestselling war memoir Testament of Youth, was at this time furiously revising for her Oxford scholarship exams at her family home in Buxton, Derbyshire, and only dimly aware of "those tentative treaties in the too-inflammable Balkans".

There is little suspense: the existence of the memoir is testament to the fact that the author has lived to tell the tale.

It is a memoir; a testament to the actress she used to be.

Dictated while bedridden during her final months, McCullers's memoir is a testament to her struggle to write "in sickness or in health".

An Act of God is the idea -- a cute one, at that -- from David Javerbaum, who's tweaking his The Last Testament: Memoir by God (not to be confused with Avery Corman's Oh, God!).

The tweets became a book, "The Last Testament: A Memoir," which, in turn, became a Broadway vehicle for the sitcom star Jim Parsons.