Twenty five years after her Testament of Youth, which has had 19 editions, Vera Brittain gives us the second quarter century and a second world war, through the experience of a woman, seasoned in the crucible of fame and ""humiliation with honor"" and weighing the values and the price in the scales of human life. In her marriage she proved the possibility of two mature and reasoning people combining conflicting careers and parenthood, in years that tested them wholly. Significant testament from a full life.