# Because You Died

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- Book: [Because You Died](https://www.bookquiver.com/vera-brittain/because-you-died) ([Because You Died.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/vera-brittain/because-you-died.md))
- Authors: [Vera Brittain](https://www.bookquiver.com/vera-brittain)
- Publisher: virago
- Medium: ebook
- ISBN: 978-07-4811-841-0
- Published: 2010-02-04
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: E-book

## Description

This collection of Vera Brittain's poetry and prose, some of it never published before, commemorates the men she loved - fiancé, brother and two close friends - who served and died in the First World War. It draws on her experiences as a VAD nurse in London, Malta, and France, and illustrates her growing conviction of the wickedness of all war. Illustrated with many extraordinary photographs from Brittain's own albums, and edited with a new introduction by Mark Bostridge, Because You Died is an elegy to men who lost their lives in a bloody conflict, and a volume of remembrance to mark the ninetieth anniversary of the Armistice.