yr12_scw_Authors

__ Authors of Spanish civil war: __ __ Intro: __ Literature has always played a dynamic role in holding up to historians a mirror to the views of individuals on a said event during history. There where many prominent authors of the twentieth centaury who wrote about the civil war or their memoirs of it. Perhaps the most famous example of this is George Orwell, who’s other novels such as //1984// still warn of a dystopian future following a revolution to this day.

__Key authors:__


 * Around time of civil war:**

Orwell: George Orwell is a well known 20th centaury author, famed in particular for his work 1984. However, Orwell also fought in the Spanish civil war for the Republicans. During this time, Orwell experienced frustration on the front, his expectations and understanding of how war worked where completely re-written.

Picture? Upon his arrival in Spain Orwell joined the Workers' Party of Marxist Unification (POUM - Partido Obrero de Unificación Marxista), a malitia army of a revolutionary communist party. In his memoirs, Orwell recounts how one of the events which stood out to him the most of the Spanish civil war where how being caught in a war forced friendships upon people. He also concludes in his memoirs that the revolution in Spain “ obviously foredoomed to failure ”1.

The Spanish civil war could be viewed as the main reason behind Orwell’s eventual anti-Starlinism that was to come in latter years, these inspired by his feelings of dis-taste for the right wing after his wife’s narrow escape from the Communist Purge in Barcelona.

Ernest Hemingway:

Lorca: do or not?

[|C. J. Sansom] -- do or not do? __
 * Now:**

Main views expressed by the authors:

__ Orwell: Orwell expresses an overall feeling of dis-trust for the right wing, however in his memoirs of the Spanish civil war he talks about not seeing the right wing troops as enemies, but at some point just as fellow human beings

__Impacts of the authors:__

It could be argued that the literature produced by forgin authors about thier experiances of the Spanish civil war helped to express the horrors of the civil war to the international comunity. With the cencorship and opression that followed teh civil war in Spain, __ Historical significance: __ The authors who wrote during and around the time of about the Spanish civil war offer historians an in-valuable in-sight into the perception of the war from the point of view of both foreign and “homeland” troops in the Spanish civil war. This is essential for historians in understanding the dynamics of how the people of various political standpoints acted and dealt with the civil war which had suddenly sprung into bloody bloom around them.

__Conclusion:__ The rich and varied literature produced on the Spanish civil war indicates that