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This 3 page paper discusses British feminist Vera Brittain’s comments about women and the challenges they face in wartime. Bibliography lists 2 sources.
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and she also experienced the discrimination against intelligent women that was (and remains) part of so many cultures. This paper considers what she means when she says that women faced
their own particular difficulties in war, and what she means when she describes a conflict between public and private duty. Discussion Brittain is best known for her book Testament of
Youth, which describes her life before the outbreak of World War I, her service in the "Great War," and how that conflict shattered her life as well as her ideals.
World War I has been described by many writers and historians as a rude shock to those that fought in it. It was the first truly mechanized war; tank battalions
replaced cavalry and brought a new element of horror to the battlefield. Troops on both sides used various kinds of gas; airplanes dropped bombs; and the soldiers struggled for months
over a few feet of ground, mounting attacks in which they charged out of their trenches and went "over the top" to meet the enemy. Trench warfare goes back to
the American Civil War, but in World War I it found its ultimate expression. No one was prepared for the slaughter, the disease and the misery of the battlefield. It
came as a particular shock because the years just preceding it were a "golden age." From all accounts, including Brittains, life in at the turn of the 20th century in
England had a sort of dream-like quality where it seems always to be summer and nothing unpleasant is even thought of. The war that erupted in 1914 brought an entire
way of life to an end. But even before the outbreak of hostilities, Brittain was aware of the problems women faced. Bright and determined to attend Somerville College, Oxford, she
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