A Moment of War, by Laurie Lee
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In December 1937, young Laurie Lee crossed the Pyrenees into Spain as a wartime volunteer from England, and in so doing walked straight into a loyalist prison and the bitter conflict of the Spanish Civil War. In this gripping memoir, he returns to the scene of his wartime coming of age and portrays the death of a young man s idealism with sincerity and a total lack of pretense.
This is the third volume in Laurie Lee s trilogy of his youth, which began with Cider With Rosie (which has sold more than six million copies worldwide) and continued with As I Walked Out One Midsummer Morning.
For anyone who wants to understand what war is actually like, when it is not being dramatized, hyped, heroized, or propagandized, this is the book. For those who still cherish the beauty and the flexibility of the English language this book . . . [is] a treasure. Los Angeles Times Book Review
This enormously sophisticated work, a testament to the morality and weakness of humanity, has the plainness of Orwell but the metaphorical soaring of a poem . . . An extraordinary book. New York Times Book Review
One of the great classics of young-men-at-war in the English language. Because of Lee s extraordinary spare, concrete poetry, his precision in truthfully rendering what he saw, and his psychological understanding of it, this small gem of a book is one of the greatest gifts to readers I ve seen in years. Barbara Probst Solomon
A Moment of War, by Laurie Lee - Amazon Sales Rank: #452384 in Books
- Published on: 2015-05-05
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Dimensions: 8.40" h x .60" w x 5.40" l, .0 pounds
- Binding: Paperback
- 216 pages
A Moment of War, by Laurie Lee From Library Journal As a young, idealistic Englishman, Lee journeyed to Spain in 1937 to help the International Brigade during the Spanish Civil War. Now, more than 50 years later, this master of both prose and poetry (e.g., Selected Poems , Trafalgar Square, 1984) provides a stunning coming-of-age account that should attract a wide range of listeners, both young and old. Lee's descriptions of the harsh, frozen surroundings that he and his fellow soldiers contended with are conveyed with typical British understatement by reader Stephen Thorne. Thorne manages to handle Lee's beautifully restrained, lyrical prose with remarkable poise. Highly recommended for most biography collections.- Mark Annichiarico, "Library Journal"Copyright 1994 Reed Business Information, Inc.
Review This enormously sophisticated work, a testament to the morality and weakness of humanity, has the plainness of Orwell but the metaphorical soaring of a poem . . . An extraordinary book. --New York Times Book ReviewOne of the great classics of young-men-at-war in the English language. Because of Lee s extraordinary spare, concrete poetry, his precision in truthfully rendering what he saw, and his psychological understanding of it, this small gem of a book is one of the greatest gifts to readers I ve seen in years. --Barbara Probst SolomonFor anyone who wants to understand what war is actually like, when it is not being dramatized, hyped, heroized, or propagandized, this is the book. For those who still cherishthe beauty and the flexibility of the English language this book . . . [is] a treasure. --Los Angeles Times Book ReviewOne of the great classics of young-men-at-war in the English language. Because of Lee s extraordinary spare, concrete poetry, his precision in truthfully rendering what he saw, and his psychological understanding of it, this small gem of a book is one of the greatest gifts to readers I ve seen in years. --Barbara Probst SolomonFor anyone who wants to understand what war is actually like, when it is not being dramatized, hyped, heroized, or propagandized, this is the book. For those who still cherishthe beauty and the flexibility of the English language this book . . . [is] a treasure. --Los Angeles Times Book ReviewOne of the great classics of young-men-at-war in the English language. Because of Lee s extraordinary spare, concrete poetry, his precision in truthfully rendering what he saw, and his psychological understanding of it, this small gem of a book is one of the greatest gifts to readers I ve seen in years. --Barbara Probst SolomonFor anyone who wants to understand what war is actually like, when it is not being dramatized, hyped, heroized, or propagandized, this is the book. For those who still cherishthe beauty and the flexibility of the English language this book . . . [is] a treasure. --Los Angeles Times Book ReviewOne of the great classics of young-men-at-war in the English language. Because of Lee s extraordinary spare, concrete poetry, his precision in truthfully rendering what he saw, and his psychological understanding of it, this small gem of a book is one of the greatest gifts to readers I ve seen in years. --Barbara Probst SolomonFor anyone who wants to understand what war is actually like, when it is not being dramatized, hyped, heroized, or propagandized, this is the book. For those who still cherishthe beauty and the flexibility of the English language this book . . . [is] a treasure. --Los Angeles Times Book ReviewOne of the great classics of young-men-at-war in the English language. Because of Lee s extraordinary spare, concrete poetry, his precision in truthfully rendering what he saw, and his psychological understanding of it, this small gem of a book is one of the greatest gifts to readers I ve seen in years. --Barbara Probst SolomonFor anyone who wants to understand what war is actually like, when it is not being dramatized, hyped, heroized, or propagandized, this is the book. For those who still cherishthe beauty and the flexibility of the English language this book . . . [is] a treasure. --Los Angeles Times Book Review
About the Author Laurie Lee was born in 1914 in Stroud, Gloucestershire, and was brought up with his mother and many siblings. At the age of nineteen he walked to London and then traveled on foot through Spain as described in As I Walked Out One Midsummer Morning. He married Catherine Polge and had one daughter; he died in 1997.
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17 of 18 people found the following review helpful. Spare, vivid, unsentimental memoir of Spanish Civil War By A Customer Laurie Lee's spare, unsentimental memoir of his experience as a volunteer in the Spanish Civil War should take a place, I think, with Orwell's Homage to Catalonia as one of the English language classics of the time. Moved by idealistic sympathy for the Republican cause, Lee begins with his winter's journey by foot across the Pyrenees only to be taken as facist infiltrator and thrown into an underground pit-prison with a soon to executed deserter. Eventually allowed to join the International Brigade, he continues to tell a story of disillusionment: "I imagined a shoulder-to-shoulder brotherhood, a brave camaraderie joined in one purpose, not the fragmentation of national groups scattered around the courtyard talking wanly only to each other. Indeed they seemed to share a mutual air of unease and watchfulness, of distrust and even dislike." Yet A Moment of War is not sour story. Its prose evokes awareness heightened by danger and deprivation. Of a humble bowl of bean soup Lee writes, "Bean soup hot and chunky, with an interesting admixture of tar, but to me a gluttonous reward after almost two weeks of near famine in the cave. I remembered again the concentration of the senses, of smell and flavor, that hunger brings to appetite, and with each steaming spoonful I was also aware of the grime of the unscrubbed table, the rusting metal of the soup plate, the sharp frozen landscape outside, almost the fatness of each bean." Of a chance reencounter with a Spanish girl who smells of "fresh mushrooms and tampled thyme, woodsmoke and burning orange," he recalls the heady, sensual magic of being young, the "rare and magnetic driving patterns of youth, cutting across the humdrum chaos of the multitudes." The real story, however, is one of war told from a soldier's viewpoint, long delays and boredom interspersed with seemingly random episodes of violence, as vivid as any soldier's tale ever written. A Moment of War was a refreshing discovery for this media-burdened, hype-wearied reader. I am now searching for more of Laurie Lee's not well enough known titles
7 of 8 people found the following review helpful. A Moment of Luck By Randy Keehn I do not know much else about the author, Larie Lee, but in "A Moment of War" he certainly led a charmed life. Those who have studied the Spanish Civil War know that the level of hatred, distrust, brutality, and revenge was excessive in this conflict. Indeed, they mirrored that of Nazi Germany and Stalinist Russia which, not coincidently, exemplify the two main factions in this civil war.Right from the beginning the author steps into the middle of this tension. He is held in suspicion by the very side he has come to fight for. The "in and out of favor" status that he holds gives this book an even greater flavor of the conflict he writes of.The book is brief, in part because the authors's tenure in Spain was brief. However, through his experiences and observations, we are able to understand much about this microcism of Twentieth Century European politics. It is a memoir written with a poetic style which allows the author to say so much in so few pages. As an account of the Spanish Civil War, it ranks up there with Orwell's "Homage to Catalonia".
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful. OF NO MOMENT By T. Wasser "We drove in silence, in a dumb state of nothing, having no part of what we saw, nor any certain direction."p. 151.* This quote from Laurie Lee's A Moment of War could be a description of what it is like to read the book. There is no story in the sense of narrative structure, plot, or character development. Such deficiencies might be forgiven as this is a non-fiction book, but then one would expect to learn something other than the author's chance impressions at a certain time of his life. Lee describes his experiences in the Spanish Civil War without giving an explanation for his volunteering to fight for the Republic, without any explanation or explication about the Civil War itself, and without any differentiation of emphasis from one experience to the next. It is as if he collected a set of verbal postcards with little connection among them, flashed them one after the other before our eyes, and expected us to have a cinematic experience. Lee describes the looks and smells of things, but not how he feels or what he thinks of these things. It is as if he has "no part" of what he saw. This is a book without "certain direction."*Laurie Lee (1991), A Moment of War. New York: The New Press, Publisher.
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