'If you had asked me why I had joined the militia I should have answered: "e,To fight against Fascism,"e, and if you had asked me what I was fighting for, I should have answered: "e,Common decency."e,'Homage to Catalonia is George Orwell's account of the Spanish Civil War. It was the last and most mature of Orwell's documentary books and it is a sharp, focused and angry account of the fighting in Spain. The discomforts of trench warfare, his near-death experience of being shot, ...