{"product_id":"a-moment-of-war-by-laurie-lee-9780241953297","title":"A Moment of War","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eA Moment of War\u003c\/em\u003e is the powerful and harrowing final book in the acclaimed trilogy that began with \u003cem\u003eCider with Rosie\u003c\/em\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eA Moment of War\u003c\/em\u003e is the magnificent conclusion to Laurie Lee's autobiographical trilogy begun in \u003cem\u003eCider with Rosie\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eAs I Walked Out One Midsummer Morning\u003c\/em\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIt was December 1937 when the young Laurie Lee crossed the Pyrenees and walked into the bitter winter of the Spanish Civil War. With great vividness and poignancy, Lee portrays the brave defeat of youthful idealism in Auden's 'low dishonest decade'.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eWriting in the \u003cem\u003eLiterary Review\u003c\/em\u003e, John Sweeney praised the memoir as, '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'.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Penguin Random House NZ","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46457462817004,"sku":"9780241953297","price":27.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/3246513482274.jpg?v=1747741275","url":"https:\/\/bookhero.live\/products\/a-moment-of-war-by-laurie-lee-9780241953297","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}