A Moment of War is the powerful final book in the acclaimed trilogy that began with Cider with Rosie.
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).
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*
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