George Orwell’s essay *Looking Back on the Spanish War* was written in 1942 and published in the journal *New Road*. In it, Orwell reflects on his experiences as a volunteer in the Spanish Civil War and examines how political memory and propaganda distort the truth of historical events - wikipedia 
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Drawing on his time fighting with the POUM militia, Orwell laments how the real nature of the war — a struggle between fascism and democracy — was obscured by ideological conflict and deliberate misinformation. He argues that modern wars are fought not only with weapons but with words, as competing factions rewrite reality to suit their narratives.
The essay expresses Orwell’s deep concern with truth in an age of political deceit. He observes that when lies are repeated often enough, they become accepted as fact — a theme that anticipates his later novel *Nineteen Eighty-Four*. For Orwell, remembering honestly what happened in Spain became a moral act in itself.