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