Homage to Catalonia, Paperback by Orwell, George; Hochschild, Adam (FRW); Trilling, Lionel (INT), ISBN 0544382048, ISBN-13 9780544382046, Brand New, Free shipping in the US
<strong>A <em>National Review </em>Top Ten Best Nonfiction Books of the Century<br>  <br> “One of Orwell’s very best books and perhaps the best book that exists on the Spanish Civil War.”—<em>The New Yorker</em></strong><br>  <br> In 1936, originally intending merely to report on the Spanish Civil War as a journalist, George Orwell found himself embroiled as a participant—as a member of the Workers’ Party of Marxist Unity. Fighting against the Fascists, he described in painfully vivid and occasionally comic detail life in the trenches—with a “democratic army” composed of men with no ranks, no titles, and often no weapons—and his near fatal wounding. As the politics became tangled, Orwell was pulled into a heartbreaking conflict between his own personal ideals and the complicated realities of political power struggles.<br>  <br> Considered one of the finest works by a man V. S. Pritchett called “the wintry conscience of a generation,” <em>Homage to Catalonia</em> is both Orwell’s memoir of his experiences at the front and his tribute to those who died in what he called a fight for common decency. This edition features a new foreword by Adam Hochschild placing the war in greater context and discussing the evolution of Orwell’s views on the Spanish Civil War.<br>  <br> “No one except George Orwell . . . made the violence and self-dramatization of Spain so burning and terrible.”— Alfred Kazin, <em>New York Times</em><br>  <br> “A wis, one that once read will never be forgotten.”—<em>Chicago Sunday Tribune</em>