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Lee, Laurie - Angela Huth (review date 8 December 1983)
Angela Huth (review date 8 December 1983)
SOURCE: "Snake-bites of Farewell," in The Listener, Vol. 110, No. 2836, December 8, 1983, pp. 30-1.
An excerpt from A Moment of War
Once the planes had gone, there was little to be heard but the crackling of flames and the distant bells of a fire-engine. I was joined by two of my companions from the train, both silent, both fresh to this, as I was. A railwayman crossed the lines, groping about, bent double. We asked him if he was all right, and he said yes, but he needed help. He shone a torch on his left hand, which was smashed and bleeding, then jerked his head in the direction of the nearby street. We ran round the edge of the burning warehouse and found two little houses, also well alight. They were small working-class shops, blazing tents of tiles and beams from beneath which came an old man's cry.
'My uncle,' said the railwayman, tearing away at the...
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- Gerard Previn Meyer (review date 6 September 1947)
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