Homage to Catalonia
Boston/New York: Mariner Classics, 2015. Reprint. Trade Paperback. Fine. Item #2344617
ISBN: 9780544382046
Eleventh printing. New. An exceptional copy.
xliv, 260 pp. 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.
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