Homage to Catalonia

From the publisher:

In 1936, originally intending merely to report on the Spanish Civil War as a journalist, George Orwell found himself embroiled as a participant-as a member of the Workers' Party of Marxist Unity (POUM). Fighting against the Fascists, Orwell's true account of life in the trenches-with a "democratic army" composed of men with no ranks, no titles, and often no weapons, and of his near fatal wounding-is painfully vivid and occasionally comic. As the politics became tangled, Orwell was pulled into a heartbreaking conflict between his own personal ideals and the complicated realities of political power struggles.