Homage to Catalonia is George Orwell's personal account of his experiences and observations in the Spanish Civil War. . . .
Orwell served as a private, a corporal (cabo) andwhen the informal command structure of the militia gave way to a conventional hierarchy in May 1937as a lieutenant, on a provisional basis, in Catalonia and Aragon from December 1936 until June 1937. In June 1937, the leftist political party with whose militia he served (the POUM, the Workers' Party of Marxist Unification,