Homage to Catalonia is political journalist and novelist George Orwell's personal account of his experiences and observations in the Spanish Civil War, written in the first person. Its first edition was published in 1938.OverviewOrwell served as both a private and an officer in parts of Catalonia and Aragon from December 1936 until June 1937, when the political party he served under (the POUM, an anti-Stalinist communist party) was made an illegal organisation and he was forced to flee