Paul Preston: 'George Orwell and the Spanish Civil War'

Unfortunately Paul Preston was ill and was unable to attend the conference. Jim Jump, secretary of the IBMT, read Professor Preston's paper, 'George Orwell and the Spanish Civil War'.
The paper noted that while Orwell's 'Homage to Catalonia' year on year outsells any other text on the Spanish Civil War, it is nevertheless only a partial and localised view of the war and misleading as a description of the reasons for the Spanish Republic's defeat.
Preston's paper concluded by saying that Orwell's memoir "had given much succour to those who wished to claim, whether from the far left or the far right, that the defeat of the Spanish Republic was somehow more the responsibility of Stalin than of Franco, Hitler, Mussolini or Neville Chamberlain". He ended his lecture by quoting Orwell: "...curiously enough the whole experience has left me with not less but more belief in the decency of human beings".
About Professor Paul Preston
Director Canada Blanch Centre for Contemporary Spanish Studies
Author of:
'The Spanish Holocaust: Inquisition and Extermination in Twentieth-Century Spain', Harper Collins 2012; paperback 2013.
'We saw Spain die: foreign correspondents in the Spanish Civil War', Constable and Robinson, 2009.
'The Spanish Civil War: Reaction, Revolution and Revenge',
paperback, Harper Perennial, 2006.
Professor Paul Preston: Research, Publications and Expertise: www.lse.ac.uk/researchAndExper...
Video is OK to embed but please acknowledge 'copyright IBMT/Marshall Mateer' - thank you.

[@dickyanders8138]

Any way you could tell me how I would cite this speech in a University Essay? I am at Newcastle University, writing an essay on the accuracy of Homage to Catalonia

[@IBMTnews]

+BGinge 8 Good topic! Best of luck. Citation: Paul Preston, 'George Orwell and the Spanish Civil War' - paper read at the IBMT Len Crome Memorial Lecture, 2nd March 2013 in Manchester. Video of the lecture - ua-cam.com/video/JlvfDS0FlT8/v-deo.html - accessed [whatever date].

[@dickyanders8138]

***** thank you