George Orwell Russian Trotskyist trials and from the start every kind of lie, including flagrant absurdities, has been circulated in the Communist press." Orwell's experiences in the Spanish Civil War gave rise to "Homage to Catalonia" (1938). Orwell returned to England in June 1937, and stayed at the O'Shaughnessy home at Greenwich. He found his views on the Spanish Civil War out of favour. Kingsley Martin rejected two of his works and Gollancz was equally cautious. At the same time, the communist "Daily Worker" was running an attack on "The Road to Wigan Pier", taking out of context Orwell writing that "the
Spanish Testament be the testament of the three men and his other fellow prisoners who did not survive. Koestler's prison experience contributed to his acute psychological insight in his portrayal of events in "Darkness at Noon" (1941), an anti-Communist novel which became a best-seller and gained him international attention. Spanish Testament Spanish Testament is a 1937 book by Arthur Koestler, describing his experiences during the Spanish Civil War. Part II of the book was subsequently published on its own, with minor modifications, under the title "Dialogue with Death" (see below). Koestler made three trips to Spain during the civil war; the third