After years of neglect "Homage to Catalonia" re-emerged in the 1950s, following on from the success of Orwell's later books. The publication in 1952 of the first US edition (by Harcourt, Brace, of New York) with an influential introduction by Lionel Trilling, "elevated Orwell to the rank of a secular saint." Another twist arrived in the late 1960s when the book "found new readers in an age of student radicalism and guerrilla struggle—Orwell being seen as an early Che Guevara and book now appeared to offer a premonition of the Soviet suppression of the 1968 Prague Spring." The book was praised by Noam Chomsky. Its popularity has continued, notably with Ken Loach's heavily Orwell-influenced film "Land and Freedom". Republished by Penguin Books in Britain in 1962, it has never been out of print since, and remains far better known than Franz Borkenau's "The Spanish Cockpit", a book Orwell himself had called, in July 1937, "the best book yet written on the subject" of the Spanish war.