Fågel, buffel, får - George Orwell? Tänker på hans bok
Djurfarmen. Den var färdig 1944 men Orwell hade svårt att få den antagen då Sovjet var en allierad till Storbritannien.
Orwell verkade inom avdelningen för psykologisk krigföring under WW2. Han var även soldat i hemvärnet. Hans fru jobbade i Censorship Department of the Ministry of Information i London.
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His lecture notes for instructing platoon members include advice on street fighting, field fortifications, and the use of mortars of various kinds. Sergeant Orwell managed to recruit Fredric Warburg to his unit. During the Battle of Britain he used to spend weekends with Warburg and his new Zionist friend, Tosco Fyvel, at Warburg's house at Twyford, Berkshire. At Wallington he worked on "England Your England" and in London wrote reviews for various periodicals. Visiting Eileen's family in Greenwich brought him face-to-face with the effects of the blitz on East London. In mid-1940, Warburg, Fyvel and Orwell planned Searchlight Books.
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In August 1941, Orwell finally obtained "war work" when he was taken on full-time by the BBC's Eastern Service. He supervised cultural broadcasts to India to counter propaganda from Nazi Germany designed to undermine Imperial links.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Orwell