Paul Preston: George Orwell and the Spanish Civil War
Unfortunately Paul Preston was ill and was unable to attend the conference. Jim Jump, secretary of the IBMT, read Professor Preston s paper, George Orwell and the Spanish Civil War. The paper noted that while Orwell s Homage to Catalonia year on year outsells any other text on the Spanish Civil War, it is nevertheless only a partial and localised view of the war and misleading as a description of the reasons for the Spanish Republic s defeat. Preston s paper concluded by saying that Orwell s memoi
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