A Moment of War

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"A Moment of War" is the magnificent conclusion to Laurie Lee's autobiographical trilogy begun in "Cider with Rosie" and "As I Walked Out One Midsummer Morning". It was December 1937 when the young Laurie Lee crossed the Pyrenees and walked into the bitter winter of the Spanish Civil War. With great vividness and poignancy, Lee portrays the brave defeat of youthful idealism in Auden's 'low dishonest decade'. Writing in the "Literary Review", John Sweeney praised the memoir as, 'A great, heart-stopping narrative of one young Englishman's part in the war in Spain ...crafted by a poet, stamping an indelible image of the boredom, random cruelty and stupidity of war'.

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Published
02/07/1992

Publisher
Penguin Books Ltd

ISBN
9780140156225

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Here is the third volume of Laurie Lee's autobiography, covering a winter in Spain in 1937 spent fighting for the Republicans during the Spanish Civil War. Fighting? Arrested five minutes after crossing the Spanish border, Lee found himself three times within moments of being shot as a spy; and the rest of his time was spent in a puzzled and puzzling miasma of half-hearted military training, exchanging complaints and badinage with a selection of eccentric and equally puzzled volunteers, playing his fiddle while Madrid burned, making heated, innocent love with the torrid Eulalia... This book gives a much more accurate and moving picture of that war than Hemingway; it is moving, funny, and written with crystal clarity and spare, relaxed muscularity. (Kirkus UK)