1938 HOMAGE TO CATALONIA "I saw newspaper reports which did not bear any relation to the facts"

Homage to Catalonia, the autobiographical account by Eric Blair (George Orwell) of his experience as a volunteer for the Republicans in the Spanish Civil War, published in 1938. Unlike other foreign intellectual leftists, Orwell and his wife did not join the International Brigades but instead enlisted in the Workers’ Party of Marxist Unification (Partido Obrero de Unificación Marxista; POUM). The book chronicles both his observations of the drudgery of the daily life of a soldier and his disillusionment with political infighting and totalitarianism. [These experiences started a process of objective analytical & analogical thinking that led to Blair's seminal works under the pen name 'George Orwell' - 1944 "Animal Farm" and 1949 "Nineteen-Eighty-Four"]
https://www.orwell.ru/library/novels/Homage_to_Catalonia/english/e_htc
Edited from "George Orwell BBC Arena Part 3 Homage to Catalonia"
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