http://www.redpepper.org.uk/booktopia-owen-jones/ Red Pepper Wed, 18 Sep 2013 17:39:37 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.6.1 http://www.redpepper.org.uk/booktopia-owen-jones/#comment-74057 Will Podmore Thu, 06 Sep 2012 10:03:28 +0000 http://www.redpepper.org.uk/?p=3475#comment-74057 If you want to understand the war in Spain, read Arthur Landis’ books – Spain: the unfinished revolution; and Death in the olive groves: American volunteers in the Spanish Civil War 1936-1939.
Forget Orwell.
Orwell’s book was the only book on Spain that my very Conservative parents had in the house – they liked it. Doesn’t that tell you something about Orwell (Old Etonian, ex-imperial policeman?)

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