A Moment of War: A Memoir of the Spanish Civil War
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 ReviewThis 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