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A Moment of War (Paperback)
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A Moment of War (Paperback)
Series: Penguin Modern Classics
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List price R273
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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. Laurie Lee
published four collections of poems: The Sun My Monument (1944),
The Bloom of Candles (1947), My Many-Coated Man (1955) and 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) and 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) and A Moment of War (1991). He died in
May 1997.
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