Editing Homage to Catalonia (section)

===Chapter four===
After some three weeks at the front, Orwell and the other English militiaman in his unit, Williams, join a contingent of fellow Englishmen sent out by the Independent Labour Party to a position at Monte Oscuro, within sight of Zaragoza. "Perhaps the best of the bunch was Bob Smillie—the grandson of [[Robert Smillie|the famous miners' leader]]—who afterwards died such an evil and meaningless death in [[Valencia, Spain|Valencia]]".<ref>George Orwell ''Homage to Catalonia''. Penguin Books 2013. p. 41.</ref> In this new position he witnesses the sometimes [[propaganda|propagandistic]] shouting between the Rebel and Loyalist trenches and hears of the fall of [[Battle of Málaga (1937)|Málaga]]. "... every man in the militia believed that the loss of Malaga was due to treachery. It was the first talk I had heard of treachery or divided aims. It set up in my mind the first vague doubts about this war in which, hitherto, the rights and wrongs had seemed so beautifully simple."<ref>George Orwell ''Homage to Catalonia''. Penguin Books 2013. p. 48.</ref>  In February, he is sent with the other POUM militiamen 50 miles to make a part of the army besieging [[Huesca]]; he mentions the running joke phrase, "Tomorrow we'll have coffee in Huesca," attributed to a general commanding the Government troops who, months earlier, made one of many failed assaults on the town.
[[File:Miliciananos Taro.jpg|thumb|left|220px| "I knew that I was serving in something called the POUM. (I had only joined the POUM militia rather than any other because I happened to arrive in Barcelona with ILP papers), but I did not realise that there were serious differences between the political parties." (''Republican soldiers, June 1937''. Photo: [[Gerda Taro]]).]]