Homage to Catalonia

About “Homage to Catalonia”

This is George Orwell's account of his experiences fighting in the Spanish Civil War. Alongside British workers, trades unionists, and socialists helping the Spanish defend their Republic from General Franco's Fascist forces, Orwell joined the POUM Militia in Catalonia, was injured in the fighting, and was invalided back to England. After leaving the front line, he witnessed the machinations of the Communist Party leading to the POUM's destruction, which he also addresses in his essay Looking Back on the Spanish War. It is a 1938 memoir by George Orwell.