Fighting alongside Bob Smillie and Georges Kopp, the narrator joins the POUM rather than the (*) International Brigades and flees the war following the outlawing of the socialist militias by the Communist-dominated government.
A footnote in this book reveals the author's uncertainty about the seventy-five percent figure given for the number of brothels that were closed. Late in this work, the narrator is distraught at the rise of the tipping of service workers, which a hotel manager had lectured the narrator for doing at the start of this work. "Firewood, food, tobacco, candles and the enemy" are identified as the five important things in trench warfare in this book, which sees the author wonder if it might be luckier not to get shot at all after he is told how fortunate he is for surviving a sniper wound to the neck. Fighting alongside Bob Smillie and Georges Kopp, the narrator joins the POUM rather than the (*) International Brigades and flees the war following the outlawing of the socialist militias by the Communist-dominated government. Concluding that the socialist regime would have endured if not for Stalin's unease at a competing leftist movement, for 10 points, name this memoir of six months of volunteering in the Spanish Civil War, written by George Orwell.
A footnote in this book reveals the author's uncertainty about the seventy-five percent figure given for the number of brothels that were closed.
{Homage} to {Catalonia}