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Diary Australia

Catalan Diary

11 June 2015

1:00 PM

11 June 2015

1:00 PM

Before there was Nineteen Eighty- Four and Animal Farm, there was Homage to Catalonia written by George Orwell in 1938. It is an account of his time in the Spanish Civil War as a volunteer on the side of the Republic. Except that he found himself in the wrong wing of the anti-fascist brigades.

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