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I apologize for the VANITY, but I've exhausted other options.I am looking for the title of a book on the Spanish Civil War, probably published in 2002 (maybe 2001) that I saw reviewed earlier this year. Ring any bells? It addressed the interaction among the Socialists, the Anarchist, and the POUM, and spent a lot of time describing the treachery of the Communists.

Today we begin discussion of George Orwell's "Homage To Catalonia." I am posting this discussion in News/Activism because of the highly political nature of this book and because many of Orwell's observations apply to today's society. I enjoyed this book on many levels. Of great interest to me was that the Loyalist side in the Spanish Civil War was fiercely divided. As Orwell has shown in this book, the Marxist POUM group was actually in more danger from the Stalinist Communists than from Franco's Fascists. If you were a member of the POUM in May/June 1937 it almost meant a...