Publisher's Synopsis
Homage to Catalonia is George Orwell's personal account of his time fighting in the Spanish Civil war, as part of the POUM militia (The Workers' Party of Marxist Unification) of the Republican army. The experience he had, solidified his political outlook. Although joining the POUM happened somewhat by chance, Orwell served on the Aragon front for 115 days. His usual publisher, Gollancz, rejected Homage to Catalonia because it contained criticisms of the Stalinists in Spain, and so he found a more sympathetic one, Frederic Warburg, who was more willing to publish books by the so called dissident left.
