Because You Died : Poetry and Prose of the First World War and After

Author: Brittain, Vera, Bostridge, Mark

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Published on 4 November 2010 by Little, Brown Book Group (Virago Press Ltd).

Paperback / softback | 272 pages, 40pp of b/w
197 x 127 x 18 | 218g

This collection of Vera Brittain's poetry and prose, some of it never published before, commemorates the men she loved - fiance, brother and two close friends - who served and died in the First World War. It draws on her experiences as a VAD nurse in London, Malta, and France, and illustrates her growing conviction of the wickedness of all war.

Illustrated with many extraordinary photographs from Brittain's own albums, and edited with a new introduction by Mark Bostridge, BECAUSE YOU DIED is an elegy to men who lost their lives in a bloody conflict, and a beautiful volume of remembrance to mark the anniversary of the Armistice.