A Moment of War is the third and final book in Laurie Lee’s autobiographical account of his childhood and youth. He is immediately arrested on suspicion of being a spy and kept in a dungeon for two weeks without food. Lee quickly joins the International Brigade, along with a motley rabble of men from all over the UK and other parts of Europe who felt drawn to the anti-fascist cause too. It is considered the third book in his autobiographical series which began with "Cider with Rosie", and then "As I Walked Out One Midsummer Morning".

The Omnibus Edition Red Sky at Sunrise - Comprising the Trilogy Cider With Rosie, As I Walked Out One Midsummer Morning and A Moment of War. Slightly Foxed brings back forgotten voices through its Slightly Foxed and Plain Foxed Editions, a series of beautifully produced little pocket hardback reissues of classic memoirs, all of them absorbing and highly individual. Laurie Lee was still a young man when he decided to fight for the Republican cause in Spain's civil war. that is to say, roughly the 24th day of the journey) the whole bunch are pushed into a train, on their way to Albacete. Unser Produktfoto entspricht dem hier angebotenen Artikel, dieser weist folgende Merkmale auf: Helle/saubere Seiten in fester Bindung.Though we may have looked at that time, in our wantonly tattered uniforms, more like prisoners of war than a crusading army, we were convinced that we possessed an invincible armament of spirit, and that in the eyes of the world, and the angels, we were on the right side of this struggle.

He could not persuade anyone to help him and so eventually crossed the Pyrenees alone in a snowstorm. Lee himself wrote that his diaries had been stolen and so he relied on memory for what is presented as an eyewitness account. A Moment of War (1991) by the British author Laurie Lee is the last book of his semi-autobiographical trilogy. In spite of our heavy sleep and grunting longing for more, some of us began to love that awakening, the crystal range of the notes stroking the dawn's silence and raising one up like a spirit. If Franco captures Teruel, he will divide the Republicans to the north and south; as Lee explains, the loss of this fortified city in the mountains is the beginning of the retreat for the Republican army.This book is small in size, but in the course of Lee's 'Moment Of War', he is arrested three times, and thrice accused of being a spy. On the second night, he's helped to find his way by a mysterious shepherd, who reappears a couple of times later (the Guardian Angel? But the train doesn't leave until the following day, that is to say, the 26th day of the journey, after experiencing a bombarment by the German and Italian airplanes. When he knocks at the door of the hut he has reached, he's met with some suspicion, apparently insofar as he's carrying a violin and books (incidentally, he never, never, plays the violin during the time he spends in Spain, nor does he ever reads any of the books he was carrying around). Nice copy of the third title in the author's autobiographical Cider with Rosie trilogy, recounting his experiences in the Spanish Civil War in 1937.