Homage to Catalonia is political journalist and novelist George Orwell's personal account of his experiences and observations in the Spanish Civil War. The first edition was published in 1938. Orwell served as a private, a corporal, or cabo and- when the informal command structure of the militia gave way to a conventional hierarchy in May 1937- as a lieutenant, on a provisional basis, in Catalonia and Aragon from December 1936 until June 1937. In June 1937 the leftist political party with who