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Memoir · 1938

Homage to Catalonia

George Orwell

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Memoir · 1938 · English · Modern

Homage to Catalonia

George Orwell — born Eric Arthur Blair

Orwell's account of fighting with the POUM militia in the Spanish Civil War — and of being hunted by his own side.

ReportageMemoirPolitical writingWarSolidarityTruth

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The book where Orwell learned that history could be written by the winners in real time. The famous lice, boredom and cold are the honest half; the discovery that newspapers reported battles that never happened is the half that produced Animal Farm.

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