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Homage to Catalonia

George Orwell

Form
Form Memoir
Year
Year 1938
Pages
Pages 260

A British writer joins a socialist militia to fight in the Spanish Civil War, is shot through the throat and survives, then watches his own side turn on itself as Communists purge the anarchists he fought beside.

the whole experience has left me with not less but more belief in the decency of human beings.
Homage to Catalonia, George Orwell

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