"In the Lenin Barracks in Barcelona, the day before I joined the militia, I saw an Italian militiaman standing in front of the officers' table." So begins George Orwell's Homage to Catalonia, a personal account of the Spanish Civil War. On the 75th anniversary of its publication, journalist Nigel Richardson follows the author's footsteps through Barcelona: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/travel/destinations/europe/spain/barcelona/10005749/George-Orwells-Barcelona.html
You can read Homage to Catalonia online, for free, at http://www.george-orwell.org/Homage_to_Catalonia
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