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... Spanish Civil War . Best known among his books is The Road to Wigan Pier , with its unforgettable picture of the coalmining industry and the miseries of the Northern slums . Less widely read , but equally worthy of attention , are ...
... Spanish Civil War . Best known among his books is The Road to Wigan Pier , with its unforgettable picture of the coalmining industry and the miseries of the Northern slums . Less widely read , but equally worthy of attention , are ...
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... Spanish Republican government , had been bombed by Italian aeroplanes . Even when they had begun to grasp that Fascism was dangerous , its essentially revolutionary nature , the huge military effort it was capable of making , the sort ...
... Spanish Republican government , had been bombed by Italian aeroplanes . Even when they had begun to grasp that Fascism was dangerous , its essentially revolutionary nature , the huge military effort it was capable of making , the sort ...
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... Spanish people were defeated , but the things they learned during those two and a half memorable years will one day come back upon the Spanish Fascists like a boomerang . A piece of Shakespearean bombast was much quoted at the beginning ...
... Spanish people were defeated , but the things they learned during those two and a half memorable years will one day come back upon the Spanish Fascists like a boomerang . A piece of Shakespearean bombast was much quoted at the beginning ...
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