Abstract
ABSTRACTAdrienne Thomas and Vera Brittain both contributed to the body of anti‐war literature during the interwar period that was dominated by male writers. A comparison of Thomas's novel Die Katrin wird Soldat (1930) and Brittain's Testament of Youth (1933) highlights that, over time, their perception of ‘Heimat’ becomes increasingly differentiated. Work in the hospitals alienated both authors from the institutions that shaped society (‘Gesellschaft’) in Germany and England and from women active at the ‘home front’. Instead, wartime suffering as part of their own generation engenders a sense of community (‘Gemeinschaft’) with the soldiers that works across borders.
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