Greetings Catalonia

Hail to Catalonia Book Description In all wars, the same thing always happens; soldiers fight, journalists make a fuss; None of those who give nationalist speeches even go near the trenches on the front, except for short propaganda trips. Hail to Catalonia is a testimony in which George Orwell, who said that he wrote every line he wrote since 1936 for his democratic socialist thought, tells about his experiences fighting as a militia in the Spanish Civil War. Orwell, who came to Barcelona at the end of 1936 with the idea of writing down his impressions of the war for a newspaper, joined the Spaniards and world citizens who came together against the tyranny of General Franco. He fought alongside the Republicans on the Aragón Front, witnessed the May events in Barcelona and did not leave the trenches until he was wounded in Huesca. Orwell, who tells the story of the barren world of totalitarian regimes and single men in 1984 and Animal Farm, describes a period in which his conscience, intellectual and political thought were shaped. Hail to Catalonia is a unique document of modern politics and a war that changed the course of the 20th century but has been all but forgotten. (From the Promotional Bulletin)