Orrin Judd writes that the Spanish Civil War is “best thought of as the first battle of the Cold War, with the Western Left, not atypically, on the wrong side.” He links to a piece by Warren Carroll of the American Spectator, who notes:
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WHEN THE HEROICS of the Spanish Civil War come up — Orwell’s Homage to Catalonia, Hemingway’s fictions or the effusions of various poets — there is a very large and usually unremarked elephant in the room: Orwell, who actually fought, and Hemingway who wrote about fighting, were on the wrong side.
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