A Moment of War is the powerful and harrowing final book in Laurie Lee's
acclaimed trilogy that began with Cider with Rosie Laurie Lee was still a
young man when he decided to fight for the Republican cause in Spain's
civil war. But though he braved icy, storm-swept mountains alone to
contact Republican sympathisers, he was immediately suspected of being a
Nationalist spy. Imprisoned and almost executed by his own side, he
eventually joined the International Brigade.
This is the story
of his experiences as a Republican soldier, fighting for the losing side
in a doomed war. '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' - Literary Review 'This story
aches with unforgotten cold and trembles with unforgotten terror'
-Guardian Laurie Lee has written some
of the best-loved travel books in the English language. Born in Stroud,
Gloucestershire, in 1914, he was educated at Slad village school and
Stroud Central School.
At the age of nineteen he walked to
London and then travelled on foot through Spain, where he was trapped by
the outbreak of the Civil War. He later returned by crossing the
Pyrenees, as he recounted in A Moment of War. In 1950 he married
Catherine Polge and they had one daughter.
A Moment of War - Laurie Lee
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