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Homage to Catalonia

George Orwell

4.04 AVERAGE

richy007's review against another edition

5.0

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4.25

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millertime247's review against another edition

5.0

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Orwell traveled to 1930s Barcelona as a journalist, realized that their experiment with anarchosyndicalism was worth fighting for. Joins the front lines, later gets shot, flees Spain with his wife. Spanish civil war factions = fascists vs communists/socialists/anarchists with lots of subgroups 

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4.0

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roni_schreuer's review against another edition

5.0

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Extremely eye opening and well written account of a side to a war I never had a chance to learn about

geese_lover's review against another edition

5.0

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Honestly a banger book that really sets up the ideas Orwell eventually writes on.

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3.5

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