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A MOMENT OF WAR

A MOMENT OF WAR

LAURIE LEE

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Publisher:
PENGUIN CLASSICS
Year of publication:
2025
Subject:
Classic fiction
ISBN:
978-0-241-75204-3
Pages:
144
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In one of the great English war memoirs, we learn what it is to cross the Pyrenees through freezing snow to fight fascism in Spain; to narrowly escape execution by your own side; to kill a man with a borrowed rifle and feel nothing but shame. Moving and shrapnel-sharp, A Moment of War recalls the defeat of idealism; 'that flush of youth which never doubts self-survival, that idiot belief in luck'.

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