Including Homage to Catalonia'Spain not only defined Orwell as an individual it also gave him
his first glimpse of totalitarianism' D. J. Taylor GuardianGeorge Orwell's experience of the
Spanish Civil War had a transformative effect on his life and work. This volume brings together
his complete writings on the war including Homage to Catalonia his searing memoir of fighting
in the conflict and the bitter betrayal that followed. The powerful journalism essays letters
and pamphlets also collected here show his resolution to tell the truth about what happened
amid a 'crop of lies' from both the Communist Party and the British press while in 'Looking
Back on the Spanish War' he remembers the heroism and decency of the ordinary people he
encountered.Edited by Peter Davison with an Introduction by Christopher Hitchens
