Question

What seems to have motivated Vera Brittain to take – and try to excel at –

a position as a nurse during the war? In what ways did her experience break
from her well-to-do upbringing as a “proper lady” How does her memoir of
the homefront complement Jünger’s remembrances of the battlefront?

Answer 1

Vera Brittain's fiance Roland Leighton, two close friends and her brother died in the war.These incidents motivated Vera to try and excel at the job of a nurse.She could have happily lived a luxurious life as she was from a rich family who owned paper mills but she decided to help the people injured during war.Vera worked as a volunteer nurse in France helping the wounded soldiers on the Western Front.