Status Updates From Homage to Catalonia

'...I hope the account I have given is not too misleading.... In case I have not said this somewhere earlier in the book I will say it now: beware of my partisanship, my mistakes of fact and the distortion inevitably caused by my having seen only one corner of events. And beware of exactly the same things when you read any other book on this period of the Spanish war.'

'...plain-clothes police had invaded our room at the hotel and searched it.... They had taken my diaries, all our books, (...) and all our letters. (Incidentally, they took away a number of letters I had received from readers. Some of them had not been answered.... If anyone who wrote to me about my last book, and who did not get an answer, happens to read these lines, will he please accept this as an apology?)