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A National Review Top Ten Best Nonfiction Books of the Century. “One of Orwell's very best books and perhaps the best book that exists on the Spanish Civil War.” — The New Yorker In 1936, originally intending merely to report on the Spanish Civil War as a journalist, George Orwell found himself embroiled as a participant—as a member of the Workers'Party of Marxist Unity. Fighting against the Fascists, he described in painfully vivid and occasionally comic detail life in the trenches—with a “democratic army” composed of men with no ranks, no titles, and often no weapons—and his near fatal wounding. As the politics became tangled, Orwell was pulled into a heartbreaking conflict between his own personal ideals and the complicated realities of political power struggles.Considered one of the finest works by a man V. S. Pritchett called “the wintry conscience of a generation,” Homage to Catalonia is both Orwell's memoir of his experiences at the front and his tribute to those who died in what he called a fight for common decency. This edition features a new foreword by Adam Hochschild placing the war in greater context and discussing the evolution of Orwell's views on the Spanish Civil W

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Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.

Author
George Orwell
Publisher
Mariner Books Classics
Published
1980
Language
EN
ISBN
9781443416764
Category
history
Subjects
Western, Memoir, Fiction
Rating
4.14 / 5 (89 ratings)
Updated
2026-03-14

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