Confederación Nacional del Trabajo the Spanish Revolution of 1936. George Orwell fought in the Spanish Civil War in the militia of Workers' Party of Marxist Unification (POUM), a revolutionary Trotskyst party (and therefore opposed to the Soviet Union line) whose militants were allied with the CNT during the revolution and to which Andrés Nin belonged. Orwell described in his book "Homage to Catalonia" the time during which Barcelona rose up with the CNT and anarchism. In the ninth chapter of his book, Orwell commented that "As far as my purely personal preferences went I would have liked to join the Anarchists." In Ernest Hemingway's
What Did You Do in the War, Daddy? substitute them for prisoners. Gradually, the Americans and Oppo's men are all freed, and, in the morning, capture the main German force. When Bolt arrives with reinforcements, Cash, having become attached to C Company and Valerno, tells Bolt the Italians will not surrender until they have had a party. Bolt initially refuses but eventually relents. With the war now far away, the Americans and Italians celebrate through the night. The title of the film came to Edwards when asked the question by his son Geoffrey. As Edwards was having marital problems at the time, he did not want to leave