Paul Preston: ’George Orwell and the Spanish Civil War’

Unfortunately Paul Preston was ill and was unable to attend the conference. Jim Jump, secretary of the IBMT, read Professor Preston’s paper, ’George Orwell and the Spanish Civil War’. The paper noted that while Orwell’s ’Homage to Catalonia’ year on year outsells any other text on the Spanish Civil War, it is nevertheless only a partial and localised view of the war and misleading as a description of the reasons for the Spanish Republic’s defeat. Preston’s paper concluded by saying that Orwell’s memoi
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