Homage to Barcelona

Homage to Catalonia was written by George Orwell about his experience fighting in the Spanish Civil War (1936–1939) for the POUM militia of the Republican Army under attack by Fascist forces under General Franco. The book was published in 1938, a year before the final defeat of Republican forces. POUM stands for Partido Obrero de Unificación Marxista, Workers’ Party of Marxist Unification. Orwell, a socialist at the time, wrote in the opening of the book “I had come to Spain with some notion of writing newspaper articles, but I had joined the militia almost immediately, because at that time and in that atmosphere it seemed the only conceivable thing to do.” Orwell escaped to France after he suffered a serious wound. Barcelona, the most bombed city during the war, fell to Fascist forces in January 1939. <a href="https://alansingerphd.medium.com/homage-to-barcelona-cbccc1d7c4ee">Click Here</a>