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Homage to Catalonia is George Orwells personal account of his experiences and observations fighting in the Sparush Ciril War for the POUM militia of the Republican army.Published in 1938 (about a year before the war ended) with little commercial success, it gained meire attention in the 1950s following the success of Orwell's better-kanwn works Animal Farm (1945) and Nineteen Eighty-Four (1949), Covering the period between December 1936 and June 1937, Orwell recounts Catalonia's revolutionary fervor during his training in Barcelona, his beredom on the front lines in Aragon, his involvement in the interfactional May Days conflict back inBarcelona on love, his getting shot in the throat back on thefront lines, and his escape to France after the POIMdeclared an illegal organization. The swar w sone of of the he defining defining events of his political outlook and a significant part of what led him to write in 1946, ""Every line of terious work that I have written since 1936 has been written, directly or indirectly, against totalitarian.