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A Moment of War Paperback Book

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At a Glance
Firsthand war memoir
Young author's raw experience
Gripping Republican soldier tale
Thrilling true wartime adventure
Dramatic Spanish Civil War
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A Moment of War is the powerful and harrowing final book in Laurie Lees acclaimed trilogy that began with Cider with RosieLaurie Lee was still a young man when he decided to fight for the Republican cause in Spains civil war. But though he braved icy, stormswept 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, heartstopping narrative of one young Englishmans 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 bestloved 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 ManyCoated Man (1955) and Pocket Poems (1960). His...

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Binding: Paperback;144 pages; Publisher: TBS-Penguin Random House Wholesale; Classification: BM; Weight: 234 g; Dimensions: 197 x 129 x 9

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