Homage to Aragon

The Spectator | January 26, 2008| | Copyright

For students of the Spanish civil war, and especially its battlefields, Aragon, visited by few foreign tourists, is the place to go.

We are now in the 70th-anniversary years of that civil war. George Orwell was fighting briefly on the Aragon front near Huesca in 1937, and the battle of Teruel was grinding on, in one of the coldest winters ever recorded in Spain, 70 years ago this month. Laurie Lee wrote a personal account of his experiences of the battle in A Moment of War, but he in fact took no part in it. The following summer the trade union leader, Jack Jones (still with us at 97), was ...

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