Homage to Catalonia

Name: Homage to Catalonia
Rating: 4 (1 reviews)
Author: George Orwell
ISBN: 9780156421171

George Orwell • 1938

Devastation Rating

Emotionally Ruined

Spain war communism disillusionment

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Our Take

Orwell went to Spain to fight fascism and was shot through the throat and nearly killed by his Communist allies. His account of the Spanish Civil War is the document of idealism's autopsy — how the left betrayed itself, how the revolution ate its own.

Appears In

► Espionage — When Loyalty Becomes a Trap ► Cold War — The Long Catastrophe of Competing Certainties ► Censorship and Intellectual Freedom — What Burns When Books Burn ► Spanish Civil War — The Last Good Cause and Its Betrayal

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