A Moment of War
Autor Laurie Leeen Limba Engleză Paperback – 16 iul 2015
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9781567925166
ISBN-10: 1567925162
Pagini: 216
Dimensiuni: 137 x 213 x 15 mm
Greutate: 0.2 kg
Editura: Nonpareil Books
ISBN-10: 1567925162
Pagini: 216
Dimensiuni: 137 x 213 x 15 mm
Greutate: 0.2 kg
Editura: Nonpareil Books
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Descriere
In this gripping, poignant memoir--a #1 bestseller in the United Kingdom--Laurie Lee returns to the scene of his wartime coming of age, portraying the death of a young man's idealism. "For anyone who wants to understand what war is actually like . . . this is the book. . . . A treasure".--Los Angeles Times Book Review.
Notă biografică
Laurie
Leehas
written
some
of
the
best-loved
travel
books
in
the
English
language.
Born
in
Stroud,
Gloucestershire,
in
1914,
he
was
educated
at
Slad
village
school
and
Stroud
Central
School.
At
the
age
of
nineteen
he
walked
to
London
and
then
travelled
on
foot
through
Spain,
where
he
was
trapped
by
the
outbreak
of
the
Civil
War.
He
later
returned
by
crossing
the
Pyrenees,
as
he
recounted
inA
Moment
of
War.
Laurie Lee published four collections of poems:The Sun My Monument(1944),The Bloom of Candles(1947),My Many-Coated Man(1955) andPocket Poems(1960). His other works includeThe Voyage of Magellan(1948),The Firstborn(1964),I Can't Stay Long(1975), andTwo Women(1983). He also wrote three bestselling volumes of autobiography:Cider with Rosie(1959), which has sold over six million copies worldwide,As I Walked Out One Midsummer Morning(1969) andA Moment of War(1991).
Laurie Lee published four collections of poems:The Sun My Monument(1944),The Bloom of Candles(1947),My Many-Coated Man(1955) andPocket Poems(1960). His other works includeThe Voyage of Magellan(1948),The Firstborn(1964),I Can't Stay Long(1975), andTwo Women(1983). He also wrote three bestselling volumes of autobiography:Cider with Rosie(1959), which has sold over six million copies worldwide,As I Walked Out One Midsummer Morning(1969) andA Moment of War(1991).
Recenzii
A
work
of
lyrical
intensity.
Read
it
and
salute
one
of
Britain's
finest
writers
A great, heart-stopping narrative of one young Englishman's part in the war in Spain . . . crafted by a poet, stamping an indelible image of the boredom, random cruelty and stupidity of war
This story aches with unforgotten cold and trembles with unforgotten terror
A great, heart-stopping narrative of one young Englishman's part in the war in Spain . . . crafted by a poet, stamping an indelible image of the boredom, random cruelty and stupidity of war
This story aches with unforgotten cold and trembles with unforgotten terror