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.
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 War.
No one except George Orwell .
made the violence and self-dramatization of Spain so burning and terrible.
-- Alfred Kazin, New York Times A wise book, one that once read will never be forgotten.
-- Chicago Sunday Tribune.
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