GEORGE ORWELL AND THE SPANISH CIVIL WAR showing soldiers waving a flag

GEORGE ORWELL AND THE SPANISH CIVIL WAR

It was the day after Christmas in 1936 when George Orwell stepped off the train in Barcelona and followed his map to the recruiting office of the POUM (Partido Obrero de Unificación Marxista), where he volunteered to fight for the Republic in the Spanish Civil War. What little I knew about the war before we […]