George Orwell’s powerful allegory has been adapted many times – often acclaimed, often controversial. Nick Smurthwaite looks ...

Approximately 90 African Americans have been identified as serving in the Abraham Lincoln Battalion. Unlike the American ...

The Spanish ... George Orwell and Ernest Hemingway for the Republicans; Evelyn Waugh and JRR Tolkien for the Nationalists. Marchers at a Vietnam moratorium protest in Sydney in 1970. The Vietnam ...

George Orwell was the most influential British writer since 1945. Many of his neologisms – such as ‘Big Brother’, ‘Thought Police’, ‘Room 101’, ‘Newspeak’, ‘memory hole’, ‘doublethink’ and ...

There is a famous George – Orwell – who fought in the Spanish Civil War, but there is another ‘forgotten’ combatant with connections a little closer to home. George Norman Rodney Drury ...

On Feb. 6, 1899, Congress approved the Treaty of Paris, which also ceded the Philippines, Puerto Rico and Guam to the U.S.

The world is in danger, mind-numbingly so, from a combination of crises: disease, hunger, mass displacement, racial and ...

Ordinary and simple language is the key to effective rhetoric. But unlike much of the sloganeering from the right, it must be ...

In All Quiet on the Western Front, Erich Maria Remarque reinvented a genre.

To people who happen to be admirers of Spanish Civil War literature ... frenetic planning and propagandizing that a reader of George Orwell and Ernest Hemingway half expects to come across ...