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Nurse for much of the first world war. Roland was expected home on leave for christmas 1915; He was wounded by a sniper and died in the afternoon the same day.

She was at the heart of an intense friendship that bound five youngsters youth, jo brand retells the story of vera's war that saw her brother edward, her fiance roland leighton and their friends victor richardson and geoffrey.

Nurse for much of the first world war. In 1914 vera brittain was young, in love and preparing to study at oxford. Among this chaos of twisted iron and splintered timber and shapeless earth are the fleshless, blackened bones of simple men who poured out their red, sweet wine of youth unknowing, for nothing more tangible than honour or their country's. Her fiancé roland leighton, two other close friends victor richardson and geoffrey thurlow, and her brother edward brittain mc were all killed during the war.