Highlights of the First World War Poetry Digital Archive: The letters between Vera Brittain and Roland Leighton

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The letters between Vera Brittain and Roland Leighton

During the First World War Vera Brittain served as a Voluntary Aid Detachment (V.A.D) nursing wounded soldiers in England, France and in Malta. During the war she lost a number people she loved dearly including her fiance Roland Leighton, and her brother Edward. After the war she became strongly - and famously - associated with the peace movement, to which she was committed for the rest of her life.

The archive contains a selection of letters sent between Vera and Roland, detailing their experiences both at Home and on the Western Front.