A Moment of War
$26.59
- Paperback
144 pages
- Release Date
23 July 2014
Summary
A Moment of War is the powerful and harrowing final book in the acclaimed trilogy that began with Cider with Rosie. ‘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 ideal…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780241953297 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 0241953294 |
| Author: | Laurie Lee |
| Publisher: | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Imprint: | Penguin Classics |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 144 |
| Release Date: | 23 July 2014 |
| Weight: | 111g |
| Dimensions: | 198mm x 130mm x 8mm |
| Series: | Penguin Modern Classics |
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A work of lyrical intensity. Read it and salute one of Britain’s finest writers
A work of lyrical intensity. Read it and salute one of Britain’s finest writers * Daily Mail *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 *
About The Author
Laurie Lee
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.
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), 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).
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