Homage to Catalonia Author:George Orwell Penguin Books Paperback No 1699. The author's memoir of his experience (1936 - 1937) as a idealistic volunteer Republican militiaman in the Spanish Civil War and the lessons of political chaos he learned as the Communists, the Anarchists, and the Trotskyites settled their differences in the streets of Barcelona. One of the more important polit... more »ical examinations of the 20th Century.« less