# A Moment of War

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- Book: [A Moment of War](https://www.bookquiver.com/laurie-lee/a-moment-of-war) ([A Moment of War.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/laurie-lee/a-moment-of-war.md))
- Authors: [Laurie Lee](https://www.bookquiver.com/laurie-lee)
- Publisher: penguin_classics
- ISBN: 978-02-4175-204-3
- Pages: 144
- Published: 2025-04-17
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: Softcover

## Description

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’.