β Scribed by George Orwell
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
**A National Review Top Ten Best Nonfiction Books of the Century
"One of Orwell's very best books and perhaps the best book that exists on the Spanish Civil War."βThe New Yorker**
In 1936, originally intending merely to report on the Spanish Civil War as a journalist, George Orwell found himself embroiled as a participantβas a member of the Workers' Party of Marxist Unity. Fighting against the Fascists, he described in painfully vivid and occasionally comic detail life in the trenchesβwith a "democratic army" composed of men with no ranks, no titles, and often no weaponsβand his near fatal wounding. As the politics became tangled, Orwell was pulled into a heartbreaking conflict between his own personal ideals and the complicated realities of political power struggles.
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