Book review: Homage to Catalonia by George Orwell
Hello everybody and welcome back to another blog post, As I'm sure many of you already know, I've been reading George Orwell's very influential book, Homage to Catalonia. Recently, I managed to finish reading it so today, I'll be doing a book review for you all! Enjoy!💜 At my school, the Spanish Civil War was never really part of our history course. All we ever really briefly touched upon, was the Nazi bombing of Geurnica but aside from that, our curriculum was primarily based on Germany, international relations, and many other things. Consequently, when I first started reading this book, it took me a while to realise what was going on. The writing style never really bothered me, it was mainly the information that I struggled to pick up at first. Why were the soldiers so badly equipped? Why was Orwell part of a communist-sympathising group? What was the difference between the POUM and the Communists? Who were all the Spanish people fighting against? These were questio...