Vera Brittain is best known for her 1933 memoir “Testament of Youth” which chronicles her life during WWI as a VAD nurse, and which described her pacifist philosophy, and validated a generation of women of the war and the sorrow-filled after-effects of it on their lives.

Much of Brittain’s writing and work after the war focused on peacemaking and peacemakers as well as Christianity, including this examination of the life of John Bunyan, which not only recounts his background and most important works, but grapples with them on a religious and political level, demonstrating Brittain’s remarkable ability to find the person behind the text. Inscribed and dated June 1950 by the author to “To Mr Gerald Atkins, with sincere good wishes.”

London: Rich and Cowan, 1950. First edition. Inscribed on the title page by the author. 440 pages. 19 x 14 x 3.5. Hardback. Some creasing to dust jacket. Very good book in good dust jacket.