The Struggle for Human Decency

Homage to Catalonia by George Orwell: In 1936 George Orwell traveled to Spain as a volunteer to fight Fascism in the Spanish Civil War. For a little over a year he did just this, on and off, before he was shot in the throat and returned to England, where he wrote an account of his experiences. The book investigates the roots and effects of fascist regimes, the people and landscape of northern Spain, the daily tedium of military life, and his own inspirations and disillusion with what he called the "struggle for human decency."