Moment of war

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The author was still a young man when he decided to fight for the Republican cause in Spain's civil war. But though he braved icy, storm-swept mountains alone to contact Republican sympathisers, he was immediately suspected of being a Nationalist spy. This title tells the story of his experiences as a Republican soldier.

A Moment of War is the powerful and harrowing final book in Laurie Lee's acclaimed trilogy that began with Cider with Rosie

Laurie Lee was still a young man when he decided to fight for the Republican cause in Spain's civil war. But though he braved icy, storm-swept 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, 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

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. 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 Many-Coated Man (1955) and Pocket Poems (1960). His other works include The Voyage of Magellan (1948), A Rose for Winter (1955), 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). He died in May 1997.

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As I Walked Out One Midsummer Morning

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The stooping figure of my mother waist deep in the grass and caught there like a piece of sheep s wool was the last i saw of my country home as i left it to discover the world abandoning the cotswolds village that raised him the young laurie lee walks to london there he makes a living labouring Op voorraad. Voor 23:59 besteld, morgen in huis .. MEER INFO

Cider With Rosie

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Cider with rosie is a wonderfully vivid memoir of childhood in a remote cotswold village a village before electricity or cars a timeless place on the verge of change growing up amongst the fields and woods and characters of the place laurie lee depicts a world that is both immediate and real and Op voorraad. Voor 23:59 uur besteld, dinsdag in huis .. MEER INFO

Rose For Winter

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He found a country broken by the civil war but the totems of indestructible spain survive the christ in agony the thrilling flamenco cry the pride in poverty the gypsy intensity in vivid whitewashed slums the cult of the bullfight the exultation in death the humour of hopelessness the paradox 12 dagen .. MEER INFO

Taal: en

Bindwijze: Paperback

Oorspronkelijke releasedatum: 15 mei 2014

Aantal pagina's: 144

Illustraties: Nee

Hoofdauteur: Laurie Lee

Hoofduitgeverij: Penguin Classics

Product breedte: 129 mm

Product hoogte: 15 mm

Product lengte: 198 mm

Studieboek: Nee

Verpakking breedte: 127 mm

Verpakking hoogte: 12 mm

Verpakking lengte: 196 mm

Verpakkingsgewicht: 248 g

EAN: 9780241953297

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