The documentary book of the Englishwoman Vera Brittain (1893–1970) “Testaments of Youth”, fragments from which translated by Anton Ilyinsky are published by “IL”, Boris Dubin, the author of the introduction, calls “one of the most famous books about the First World War”, to besides, written not about the front, but about the rear. And further: “Before the reader is one of the best, in my opinion, portraits of the English character, a unique and at the same time completely specific portrait of a young Englishwoman.”