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Homage to Catalonia is George Orwell's brutally honest account of his experience as a militiaman during the Spanish Civil War.
In the last days of 1936, Spain was five months into a bitter civil war, in which volunteers from many countries were helping the elected government of the Spanish Republic battle a military coup led by General Francisco Franco and backed by Hitler and Mussolini. Some foreigners flocking to Spain had come for another reason:...
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Alfaguara
Pub. Date
[1995]
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Español
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Una memoria militar, la historia de la mili narrada por la pluma literaria de Antonio Muñoz Molina.
A fi nales de los ochenta, un joven Antonio Muñoz Molina ingresó en el servicio militar obligatorio. Allí fue despojado de su cabello, de su identidad, de su nombre. Pasó a ser un J-54 cualquiera en un entorno marcado por un patriotismo que veía con desapego y una intolerancia en la que no encajaba. Ardor guerrero es «una crónica memorística...
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Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
2010.
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English
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Overview: Homage to Catalonia is both a memoir of Orwell's experience at the front in the Spanish Civil War and a tribute to those who died in what he called a fight for common decency. Down and Out in Paris and London chronicles the adventures of a penniless British writer who finds himself rapidly descending into the seedy heart of two great European cities. This edition brings together two powerful works from one of the finest writers of the twentieth...
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