Homage to Catalonia
"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...
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