In compiling his list of books about civil war for the
Guardian,
Michael Symmons Roberts "was looking for books that addressed the unique terror of 'neighbour against neighbour' conflicts, but also books that explored the particular challenge of peace in the aftermath of civil war. How do you go back to living with these people, nodding in the street, sharing trains, buses, schools, hospitals?"
Number One on his list:
Homage to Catalonia by George Orwell
The Spanish Civil War drew many writers in, and produced striking work in fiction and poetry as a result. Orwell's is one of the great memoirs, though. A novelist and journalist recounting his own experience
Read about
the other nine titles on the list.
--Marshal Zeringue
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