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From: Monarch Notes
Date: 19630101
Author:Orwell, George

Orwell, George
Monarch Notes
01-01-1963
Life Of George Orwell:

In 1943, the year of Europe's greatest self-destruction and for Western
civilization possibly the most hopeless year of this century, George Orwell
published an essay called "Looking Back on the Spanish War." In that essay,
there appears a poem dedicated to an anonymous soldier of the war, a war
(1936-39) in which Orwell himself served as a volunteer. Orwell had seen the
soldier who was the subject of his poem, and whose name he never did learn, in
1936 soon after he had come to Spain to be a soldier in the revolutionary
militia.

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