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  1. Cover
  2. Brand Page
  3. Orwell in Spain
  4. Orwell in Spain
  5. Introduction
  6. Editorial Note
  7. Acknowledgements
  8. Orwell’s Journey to Spain, December 1936
  9. Extract from ‘As I Please’, 42 [The Journey to Spain]
  10. Jennie Lee to Margaret M. Goalby, 23 June 1950: Orwell’s Arrival in Barcelona
  11. Orwell in Spain, December 1936
  12. Eileen Blair to Leonard Moore
  13. ‘British Author with the Militia’
  14. Eileen Blair to her mother
  15. To Eileen Blair
  16. Extract from letter from Eileen Blair to Leonard Moore
  17. Eileen Blair to Dr Laurence (‘Eric’) O’Shaughnessy
  18. Extract from letter to Victor Gollancz
  19. Orwell’s Wound
  20. To Cyril Connolly
  21. Eileen Blair to Dr Laurence (‘Eric’) O’Shaughnessy
  22. Escape from Spain
  23. BARCELONA 13TH JULY, 1937
  24. Charles Doran
  25. Homage to Catalonia
  26. X
  27. ‘Spilling the Spanish Beans’
  28. Eileen Blair to John McNair
  29. George Kopp to Dr Laurence O’Shaughnessy
  30. Translation of letter written in Spanish by George Kopp to Lieutenant-Colonel Burillo,7 Chief of Police, Barcelona
  31. George Kopp to Eileen Blair
  32. Review of The Spanish Cockpit by Franz Borkenau; Volunteer in Spain by John Sommerfield
  33. To Rayner Heppenstall
  34. ‘Eye-Witness in Barcelona’
  35. Abstracts of Reports on the Spanish Civil War in the Daily Worker and News Chronicle, 1936–7
  36. To Amy Charlesworth
  37. To Charles Doran
  38. Unpublished Response to Authors Take Sides on the Spanish War
  39. To Geoffrey Gorer
  40. Review of Red Spanish Notebook by Mary Low and Juan Brea; Heroes of the Alcazar by R. Timmermans; Spanish Circus by Martin Armstrong
  41. To H. N. Brailsford
  42. Review of Storm Over Spain by Mairin Mitchell; Spanish Rehearsal by Arnold Lunn; Catalonia Infelix by E. Allison Peers; Wars of Ideas in Spain by Josée Castillejo; Invertebrate Spain by Josée Ortega y Gasset
  43. H. N. Brailsford to Orwell
  44. To H. N. Brailsford
  45. Review of The Tree of Gernika by G. L. Steer; Spanish Testament by Arthur Koestler
  46. To the Editor, Time and Tide
  47. To Raymond Mortimer
  48. To Stephen Spender
  49. To Geoffrey Gorer
  50. ‘Notes* on the Spanish Militias
  51. To the Editor, The Times Literary Supplement
  52. Sir Richard Rees to Orwell
  53. To the Editor, The Listener
  54. Review of Spain’s Ordeal1 by Robert Sencourt; Franco’s Rule [anonymous]
  55. Review of The Civil War in Spain by Frank Jellinek1
  56. Review of Searchlight on Spain by the Duchess of Atholl1
  57. To the Editor, Manchester Guardian
  58. To Yvonne Davet
  59. To Raymond Postgate
  60. Orwell made two copies of this summary of the article in La Flèche of 14 October 1938, by L.-P. Foucaud.
  61. Review of The Church in Spain, 1737-1937 by E. Allison Peers; Crusade in Spain by Eoin O’Dujfy1
  62. To Frank Jellinek
  63. ‘Release of George Kopp’
  64. ‘Caesarean Section in Spain
  65. To Yvonne Davet
  66. Review of Hotel in Flight by Nancy Johnstone
  67. Review of The Last Days of Madrid by S. Casado, translated by Rupert Croft-Cooke; Behind the Battle by T. C. Worsley
  68. Review of The Spanish Dilemma by E. Allison Peers; A Key to Victory: Spain by Charles Duff
  69. Extract from War-time Diary
  70. Review of The Forge by Arturo Barea,1 translated and with an introduction by Sir Peter Chalmers Mitchell2
  71. Extract from letter to Partisan Review
  72. Extract from BBC Weekly News Review for India, 22 [Comparison with the Spanish Civil War]
  73. ‘Looking Back on the Spanish War’ [1942?]
  74. Proposed BBC Broadcast on the Spanish Civil War
  75. Review of Spain in Eclipse, 1937–1943 by E. Allison Peers; Behind the Spanish Mask by Lawrence Dundas
  76. Extract from ‘As I Please’, 10 [How the lie becomes truth]
  77. ‘The Eight Years of War: Spanish Memories’
  78. Review of An Interlude in Spain by Charles d’Ydewalle, translated by Eric Sutton
  79. Review of The Clash by Arturo Barea1
  80. Orwell’s Pamphlet Collection
  81. A summary of letters from and to David Astor, 4 and 5
  82. Further Reading

Vol. XX also includes in Appendix 15 the following supplementary items: 2278A, 2278B, 2420A, 2451A, 2563B, 2593A, 2625A, 3351A and 3715A. Each volume is indexed and vol. XX has a Cumulative Index, indexes of topics, and an index of serials in which Orwell’s work appeared.

There is a wealth of literature devoted to the Spanish Civil War, not all of it in agreement. The following might be found helpful and, in the main, conveniently available.

Victor Alba, ed., El Proceso del P.O.U.M.: Documentos Judiciales y Policiales (Barcelona, 1989); this gives (in Spanish) many documents associated with the Tribunal Especial, June 1937 to October 1938

Victor Alba and Stephen Schwartz, Spanish Marxism vs. Soviet Communism: A History of the POUM (1988)

Bill Alexander, British Volunteers for Liberty: Spain, 1936–1939 (1982)

Michael Alpert, A New International History of the Spanish Civil War (1994)

Frederick R. Benson, Writers in Arms: The Literary Impact of the Spanish Civil War (1967)

Burnett Bolloten, The Spanish Civil War: Revolution and Counterrevolution (1991)

Franz Borkenau, ‘Spain: Whose Victory?’, Observer, 27 March 1949, 4

Vincent Brome, The International Brigade (1965)

Tom Buchanan, ‘The Death of Bob Smillie, the Spanish Civil War, and the Eclipse of the Independent Labour Party’, Historical Journal, 40 (1997), 435–61

Audrey Coppard and Bernard Crick, eds., Orwell Remembered (1984)

David Corkhill and Stewart Rawnsley, eds., The Road to Spain (1981)

Bernard Crick, George Orwell: A Life (1980; 3rd edn 1992)

Valentine Cunningham, ed., Spanish Civil War Verse (1980); with a long introduction by Cunningham

Peter Davison, George Orwell: A Literary Life (1996)

Rayner Heppenstall, Four Absentees (1960)

Katherine B. Hoskins, Today the Struggle: Literature and Politics in England during the Spanish Civil War (1969)

James Joll, The Anarchists (2nd edn, 1980)

Jeffrey Meyers, ed., George Orwell: The Critical Heritage (1975) —, Orwell: Wintry Conscience of a Generation (2000)

John Newsinger, Orwell’s Politics (1999)

—, ‘The Death of Bob Smillie’, Historical Journal, 41 (1998), 575–8

Christopher Norris, ed., Inside the Myth: Orwell: Views from the Left (1984)

Paul Preston, The Spanish Civil War, 1936–1939 (1986)

Sir Richard Rees, For Love or Money (1960)

—, George Orwell: Fugitive from the Camp of Victory (1961)

Patrick Reilly, George Orwell: The Age’s Adversary (1986)

John Rodden, The Politics of Literary Reputation: The Making and Claiming of ‘St George Orwell’ (1989)

William Rust, Britons in Spain: The History of the British Battalion of the XVth International Brigade (1939)

Michael Seidmann, ‘The Unorwellian Barcelona’, European History Quarterly, 20 (1990), 163–80

Michael Shelden, Orwell: The Authorised Biography (1991)

Ian Slater, Orwell: The Road to Airstrip One: The Development of George Orwell’s Political and Social Thought from Burmese Days to 1984 (1985)

Peter Stansky and William Abrahams, Orwell: The Transformation (1979)

Hugh Thomas, The Spanish Civil War (3rd edn, 1977; Penguin 1979)

Stephen Wadhams, ed., Remembering Orwell (1984)

George Woodcock, The Crystal Spirit: A Study of George Orwell (1967)

David Wykes, A Preface to Orwell (1987)

Alex Zwerdling, Orwell and the Left (1974)