Description
A New York Times Notable Book of the Year, the memoir of a young Englishman in the Spanish Civil War.
In December 1937 a young Laurie Lee crossed the Pyrenees into Spain, a wartime volunteer from England, and in doing so walked straight into a loyalist prison and the bitter conflict of the Spanish Civil War. In this gripping memoir, he returns to the scene of his wartime coming of age and portrays the death of a young man's idealism with a sincerity and lack of pretense that leaves you breathless.
This is the third volume in Laurie Lee's trilogy, which began with Cider with Rosie and continued with As I Walked Out One Midsummer Morning.. For anyone who wants to understand what war is actually like, when it is not being dramatize, hyped, heroized, or propagandized, this is the book to read.
In December 1937 a young Laurie Lee crossed the Pyrenees into Spain, a wartime volunteer from England, and in doing so walked straight into a loyalist prison and the bitter conflict of the Spanish Civil War. In this gripping memoir, he returns to the scene of his wartime coming of age and portrays the death of a young man's idealism with a sincerity and lack of pretense that leaves you breathless.
This is the third volume in Laurie Lee's trilogy, which began with Cider with Rosie and continued with As I Walked Out One Midsummer Morning.. For anyone who wants to understand what war is actually like, when it is not being dramatize, hyped, heroized, or propagandized, this is the book to read.