Homage to Catalonia

Homage to Catalonia is political journalist and novelist George Orwell's personal account of his experiences and observations in the Spanish Civil War. The first edition was published in 1938. The book was not published in the United States until February 1952. The American edition had a preface written by Lionel Trilling. The only translation published in Orwell's lifetime was into Italian, in December 1948. [The German translation appeared only in 1964!]
A French translation made by Yvonne Davet – with whom Orwell corresponded, commenting on her translation and providing explanatory notes – in 1938-39, was not published until five years after Orwell's death.

The book was finally published in April 1938 but "made virtually no impact whatsoever and by the outbreak of war with Germany had sold only 900 copies." According to John Newsinger, "the Communist vendetta against the book" was maintained as recently as 1984, when Lawrence and Wishart published Inside the Myth, a collection of essays "bringing together a variety of standpoints hostile to Orwell in an obvious attempt to do as much damage to his reputation as possible."

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Addendum:
Revisiting George Orwell’s classic account of the Spanish Civil War, 75 years on.
by Mick Hume , SPIKED

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Censorship is censorship, whether from the right or the left. Or should we consider the crimes of the left, the communists, as less weighting, less important, less damaging? Obviously so - since so many still uphold Stalin, his terror, as legitimate measures against fascism.

With leftwingers like those one only can become desperate. Today it is no accident or coincidence that there are no journalists, writers or activists like George Orwell was. The scene is clear: here the good boys, the politically correct ones, there the bad boys, the enemies. The old manichaean view reigns for the comfort of the One Dimensional Man.