A Moment of War

“The magnificent conclusion to Laurie Lee’s autobiographical trilogy begun in Cider with Rosie and As I walked Out one Midsummer Morning.

It was December 1937 when the young Laurie Lee crossed the Pyrenees and walked into the bitter winter of the Spanish civil War. With great vividness and poignancy, A Moment of War portrays the brave defeat of youthful idealism in Auden’s ‘low dishonest decade’.”