A Moment Of War By Laurie Lee (Paperback, 2014)

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A Moment of War is the powerful & 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 & 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 & stupidity of war'
- Literary Review ' This story aches with unforgotten cold & 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 & Stroud Central School At the age of nineteen he walked to London & 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 & they had one daughter Laurie Lee published four collections of poems The Sun My Monument (1944) The Bloom of Candles (1947) My Many-Coated Man (1955) & Pocket Poems (1960) His other works include The Voyage of Magellan (1948) A Rose for Winter (1955) The Firstborn (1964) I Can't Stay Long (1975) & Two Women (1983) He also wrote three bestselling volumes of autobiography Cider with Rosie (1959) which has sold over six million copies worldwide As I Walked Out One Midsummer Morning (1969) & A Moment of War (1991) He died in May 1997