A Moment of War

In one of the great English war memoirs, we learn what it is to cross the Pyrenees through freezing snow to fight fascism in Spain; to narrowly escape execution by your own side; to kill a man with a borrowed rifle and feel nothing but shame. Moving and shrapnel-sharp, A Moment of War recalls the defeat of idealism; ''that flush of youth which never doubts self-survival, that idiot belief in luck''.>

Product details

• Authors: Laurie Lee
• Publisher: Penguin Books Uk
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 17.04.2025
• EAN: 9780241752043
• ISBN: 978-0-241-75204-3
• No. of pages: 144
• Dimensions: 111 mm x 181 mm x 15 mm
• Series: Penguin Archive
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; Humanities, art, music > History > 20th century (up to 1945); Spain, HISTORY / Military / General, Memoirs, Modern warfare, c 1919 to c 1939 (Inter-war period), c 1918 to c 1939 (Inter-war period), Spanish Civil War, 1936–1939 (Spanish Civil War period), Civil wars, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Memoirs, HISTORY / Military / Civil Wars