As I Walked Out One Midsummer Morning

In 1934 Laurie Lee set out from his home in the Cotswolds to walk to London, where he lived by playing the violin and labouring on a building site. Then, armed with one Spanish phrase, he decided to see Spain, and for a year walked through a country on the brink of civil war. 30 years later Lee captured the atmosphere in the second volume - "As I Walked Out One Midsummer Morning" - of his autobiographical trilogy, which began with "Cider with Rosie". In "A Moment of War", the concluding volume of the trilogy, Laurie Lee describes a bitter winter in Spain, which he spent fighting with the International Brigade for the Republican cause.