Homage to Catalonia
1938 · Work
Orwell's memoir of fighting with the POUM militia, being shot through the throat and fleeing the communist purge of his comrades — it sells barely 600 copies in his lifetime.
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- Spanish Civil War (1936)
- Nationalist coup d'état (1936)
- Bombing of Guernica (1937)
- Nationalist victory in Spain (1939)
- Barcelona falls and the Retirada begins (1939)
- Franco is proclaimed Generalísimo (1936)
- Siege of Madrid (1936)
- The Popular Front wins the Republic's last election (1936)
Around 1938
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- Battle of Stalingrad (1942)
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- Battle of Britain (1940)
- The Holocaust (1933)
- Apartheid (1948)
- Chinese Civil War (resumed) (1945)
- Manhattan Project (1942)
- World War II (1939)
- Hitler becomes Chancellor of Germany (1933)