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George Orwell · 1938
Orwell's firsthand memoir of his experiences fighting in the Spanish Civil War with the POUM militia in Catalonia, documenting the revolutionary atmosphere of Barcelona and the realities of combat from late 1936.
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What this book knows
A man fights in a war he barely understands and learns that political language kills truth before soldiers kill each other.
obedience-and-authority
In the militias discipline is theoretically voluntary, based on class-loyalty; when a man refused an order you appealed to him in the name of comradeship.
HCG-RC-020The clue to Communist Party behaviour in any country is the military relation of that country, actual or potential, towards the U.S.S.R.
HCG-RC-042The word 'Trotskyist' is now flung about with greater and greater freedom, used in a way that is extremely misleading and often intended to mislead.
HCG-RC-135trauma-and-survival
He looked so lonely, wandering to and fro, looking at you through his muslin cage and unable to speak.
HCG-RC-148self-and-identity
Beware of my partisanship, my mistakes of fact, and the distortion inevitably caused by my having seen only one corner of events.
HCG-RC-178The Italian militiaman typifies for me the special atmosphere of that time—a period already receding into the past, yet still vivid.
HCG-RC-002Illuminates
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