10.01.07
Testament of Youth: Tenth Post (History)
This book is really incredible. I know that I keep saying that, but I can’t help it. I’m not only in awe of Vera Brittain’s writing, but of everything that she went through and of the fact that she had the strength to share it with the world like this. I think that I’m in awe of anyone who was ever that close to such a war, in any way. It’s a history that’s so important, but so often lost (and not only because many of those who are that close don’t survive). How do human conflicts get like that? How do we let it happen over and over? Will we ever learn?
I found this quote very moving: “When the sound of victorious guns burst over London at 11 a.m. on November 11th, 1918, the men and women who looked incredulously into each other’s faces did not cry jubilantly: “We’ve won the War!” They only said: “The War is over.”