27 “aeroplanes, tractors” – Ibid., p. 201.
28 “left-wingers of all complexions” – Ibid., p. 205.
29 “admirable propaganda” – H. J. Laski, Left News, March 1937, reprinted in Jeffrey Meyers (ed.), George Orwell: The Critical Heritage (Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1975), p. 104.
30 “The truth is” – Victor Gollancz, preface to Left Book Club edition of The Road to Wigan Pier, CW V, p. 221.
31 “gut socialist” – Wadhams, p. 95.
32 “nothing else can save us” – Orwell, CW V, p. 204.
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.