Download or read book Homage to Catalonia written by George Orwell and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2000-03-28 with total page 247 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: George Orwell's account of his experience as a militiaman in the Spanish Civil War in the 1930s. The book describes the chaos at the Front, the futile young deaths for what became a confused cause, the antique weapons and the disappointment many British Socialists felt on arriving in Spain to help.