George Orwell's Homage To Catalonia

In Homage to Catalonia, George Orwell describes what the conflict was like. He provides the following details to show exactly this as well as conditions on the ground and fighting:
• “It was the first time that I had ever been in a town where the working class was in the saddle. Practically every building of any size had been seized by the workers and was draped with red flags or with the red and black flag of the Anarchists; every wall was scrawled with the hammer and sickle and with the initials of the revolutionary parties” (Orwell 2).
• “The town had a gaunt untidy look, roads and buildings were in poor repair, the streets at night were dimly lit for fear of air—raids, the shops were mostly shabby and half-empty. Meat was scarce and milk
• “Yet this mob of eager children, who were going to be thrown into the front line in a few days’ time, was not even taught how to fire a rifle or pull the pin out of a bomb. At the time I did not grasp that this was because there were no weapons to be had. In the P.O.U.M. militia the shortage of rifles was so desperate that fresh troops reaching the front always had to take their rifles from the troops they relieved in the line” (Orwell 6).
• “The Spaniards are good at many things, but not at making war. All foreigners alike are appalled by their inefficiency, above all their maddening unpunctuality. The one Spanish word that no foreigner can avoid learning is mañana—‘tomorrow’ (literally, ‘the morning’). Whenever it is conceivably possible, the business of today is put off until mañana. This is so notorious that even the Spaniards themselves make jokes about it. In Spain nothing, from a meal to a battle, ever happens at the appointed time. As a general rule things happen too late, but just occasionally—just so that you shan’t even be able to depend on their happening late—they happen too early” (Orwell
Orwell provides a personal narrative of one of history’s significant events from our past. Orwell thus shares a similar personal/first-hand descriptiveness/account, just like the texts of Remarque and Walter. Orwell also provides an in-depth historical background to his text, which is similar to the texts of Porter and Pipes. Out of all the books we have read, Homage to Catalonia has been the most valuable text in learning about the past. Homage to Catalonia, if ranked out of all of them, would be ranked first out of five. I picked Homage to Catalonia as the most valuable text for learning about the past as well as ranking Orwell’s text first, because it provides the best example of a detailed and focused account of its subject while giving their reader a personal narrative to bring it