33 “smells of crankishness” – Ibid., p. 201.

34 “began to realize” – Rees, p. 146.

35 “The Spanish Civil War” – Antony Beevor, The Battle for Spain: The Spanish Civil War 1936–1939 (Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2006), p. 267.

36 “common decency”, “a plague of initials” and “I was not only uninterested” – Orwell, The Complete Works of George Orwell VI: Homage to Catalonia (Secker & Warburg, 1997), p. 188.

37 “a world where lost and lonely people” – Jason Gurney, quoted in Beevor, p. 178.

38 Up to 35,000 men– see Beevor, p. 177.

39 “It was in part an anarchist’s war” – Richard Crossman (ed.), The God That Failed: Six Studies in Communism (Hamish Hamilton, 1950), p. 245.

40 “it seemed certain” – Malcolm Muggeridge, The Thirties: 1930–1940 in Great Britain (Hamish Hamilton, 1940), p. 249.

41 “Though he was a wonderful chap” – Paris Review, no. 28, Summer-Fall 1962.

42 “It was overwhelming” – Franz Borkenau, The Spanish Cockpit (Faber & Faber, 1937), p. 69.

43 “It is as if the masses” – Cyril Connolly, The Condemned Playground: Essays: 1927–1944 (Routledge, 1945), p. 186.

44 “I have come to Spain” – Crick, p. 317.

45 “a bad copy of 1914–18” – Orwell, “My Country Right or Left”, Folios of New Writing, no. 2, Autumn 1940, CW XII, 694, p. 271. Оруэлл Дж. Моя страна, правая или левая / пер. В. П. Голышев, 2003.

46 “firewood, food, tobacco” – Orwell, CW VI, p. 22.

47 “Nothing ever happened” – Ibid., p. 47, and CW IV, p. 41.

48 “This is not a war” – Ibid., p. 32.

49 “breathed the air of equality” – Ibid., p. 83.

50 “not less but more” – Ibid., p. 186.

51 “She caught George’s dreams” – T. R. Fyvel, George Orwell: A Personal Memoir (Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1982), p. 136.

52 “Come on, you bastards!” – D. J. Taylor, Orwell: The Life (Vintage, 2004), p. 214.

53 “visibly a fellow creature” – “Looking Back on the Spanish War”, CW XIII, 1421, p. 501. Оруэлл Дж. Вспоминая войну в Испании / пер. А. М. Зверев. – Grey Walls Press, 1989.

54 so alarmed by a rat– see Bob Edwards’s account in Coppard and Crick, p. 147.

55 “If there is one thing” – Orwell, CW VI, p. 59.

56 “The political side of the war” – Ibid., p. 200.

57 “She was the first person” – Rees, p. 147.

58 “It is an atmosphere” – Borkenau, p. 241.

59 “liked by nobody” – Ibid., p. 182.

60 “A Trotskyist” – Ibid., p. 240.

61 “It goes without saying” – Beevor, p. 226.

62 “an unmistakable and horrible feeling” – Orwell, CW VI, p. 97.

63 “a furtive, gutted look” – John Dos Passos, The Theme Is Freedom (Dodd, Mead & Company, 1956), p. 141.

64 “to be talking to an honest man” – Ibid., p. 145.

65 “The match that fired” – Orwell, CW VI, p. 225.

66 “It was the first time” – Ibid., p. 121.

67 “Tear the mask” – Ibid., p. 126.

68 “To hear what was said” – Orwell, The Complete Works of George Orwell II: Burmese Days (Secker & Warburg, 1997), p. 140.

69 “The only broadcasting service” – Taylor, p. 205.

70 “One of the dreariest effects” – Orwell, CW VIp. 208.

71 “I hope I shall get the chance” – Orwell letter to Victor Gollancz, May 9, 1937, in CW XI, 368, p. 23.

72 “almost a mental disease” – Beevor, p. 271.

73 “This was simply” – Crossman (ed.), p. 253.

74 “I gradually acquired” – Ibid., p. 254.

75 “They couldn’t hit a bull” – Wadhams, p. 90.

76 “a violent resentment” – Orwell, CW VI, p. 139.

77 “Get out” – Taylor, p. 230.

78 “the best of the bunch” – Orwell, CW VI, p. 39.

79 “his face was no more” – Robert Conquest, The Great Terror: A Reassessment (Pimlico, 2008), p. 410.

80 “nightmare atmosphere” – Orwell, CW VI, p. 151.

81 “however little you were actually conspiring” – Ibid., p. 148.

82 “pronounced Trotskyists” – David Caute, Politics and the Novel During the Cold War (Transaction, 2010), p. 47.

83 “It was a queer business” – Orwell letter to Rayner Heppenstall, July 31, 1937, CW XI, 381, p. 53.

84 “It was about the only time” – Wadhams, p. 96.

85 “He said he used to take” – Ibid., p. 93.

86 “Almost every journalist” – Quoted in Paul Preston, We Saw Spain Die (Constable, 2008), p. 15.

87 “The Spanish War and other events” – Orwell, “Why I Write”, CW XVIII, 3007, p. 319.

88 “There has been a quite deliberate conspiracy” – Orwell, “Spilling the Spanish Beans”, New English Weekly, July 29 and September 2, 1937, CW XI, 378, p. 46.

89 “there can be no argument” – Orwell, CW VI, p. 248.

90 “I found myself feeling very strongly” – Orwell, “As I Please”, Tribune, February 4, 1944, The Complete Works of George Orwell XVI: I Have Tried to Tell the Truth 1943–1944 (Secker & Warburg, 2001), 2416, p. 88.

91 “It was my purpose” – Warburg, p. 9.

92 “It shows us the heart” – Quoted in Miriam Gross (ed.), The World of George Orwell (Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1971), p. 144.

93 “I warn everyone” – Orwell, CW VI, p. 227.

94 “If I had not been angry” – Orwell, “Why I Write”, CW XVIII, 3007, p. 320. Оруэлл Дж. Почему я пишу / пер. В. Ф. Мисюченко. 1988.

95 “To me your book” – Quoted in Crick, p.