num_pages: 192
description: In December 1937, young Laurie Lee crossed the Pyrenees into Spain as a wartime volunteer from England, and in so doing walked straight into the bitter winter of the Spanish Civil War. In this gripping memoir, named a New York Times Notable Book of the Year, 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.
language: English
title: A Moment of War: A Memoir of the Spanish Civil War
titlecomplete: A Moment of War: A Memoir of the Spanish Civil War
characters: Laurie Lee
genres: Memoir, Autobiography, Spanish Civil War, Travel, Nonfiction, Classics, History, War, Spain, Biography
ratings_count: 1724
places: Pyrenees Mountains, Europe, Spain
series: The Autobiographical Trilogy
publisher: The New Press