A Moment of War (Penguin Modern Classics)

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A Moment of War (Penguin Modern Classics)

A Moment of War (Penguin Modern Classics)

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It’s easy to follow, but it doesn’t reach halfway up to the magnificence of the author’s own reading of his books.

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). In fact I was so exhausted I had to master all my patriotism in the cause of reading to end this book at all. It is beautifully written with wonderful descriptions of the freezing countryside, but I have awarded it only three stars as I am not fond of war books, but read it as it is the final part of a trilogy. To become a subscriber to Slightly Foxed: The Real Reader’s Quarterly Magazine, please visit our subscriptions page.

the Loyalists (his earlier trip had ended with his being plucked from the southern coast by a British destroyer at the outbreak of the civil war), Mr. As I walked out, perhaps being my favoured of the three (and hence the 4 x stars for this particular book), but I still strongly recommend it, it is a brilliant, if dark book. One midsummer morning he walked out of his childhood home in the Cotswolds (described in entertaining detail in the fabulous ‘Cider With Rosie’) and walked to Spain via London (described in ‘As I Walked Out One Midsummer Morning’). This is another book that will remain on shelves until I feel able to re-read again, and I know I will be not be disappointed when I do. It is in stark contrast to 'As I walked out', it could barely be recognised as the same country, the searing heat, swapped for the bitter searing cold, the jovial, welcoming, slightly bizarre characters turned to hostile, terrified and sick.

And he tell us that Madrid is a mile-high, when, in fact, the altitude of Madrid is only about a third of that.

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. Lee reports many disturbing sights, and relates stories of atrocities which are told by the other soldiers and recruits, but through-out he maintains a sort of impassive calm; he never indulges his writing with his own sentiments or fears.



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