Penguin 2014. Paperback, 144 pp
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.