JOHN NEWSINGER is Senior Lecturer in History at Bath Spa University College. He is the author of Fenianism in Mid-Victorian Britain and Dangerous Men: The SAS and Popular Culture, and the editor of Shaking the World: John Reed's Revolutionary Journalism.

'My main criticism of this book (a compliment by another name) is that I wanted it to be longer.' - Robert Pearce, History Today 'an extremely useful addition to the literature on Orwell'. - Frank Field, History 'A vigorous thrashing defence of Orwell'. - Robert Colls, History Workshop 'Newsinger has given as good an account of Orwell as a political thinker - never a systematic one, always a stimulating one - as we are likely to find in this generation'. - Bernard Crick, Political Quarterly

• Acknowledgements Introduction Pox Britannica Down Among the Oppressed Spilling the Spanish Beans Only Revolution Can Save England A Choice of Evils The Destruction of the Soviet Myth A Doctor Treating an All but Hopeless Case Conclusion Notes Index

JOHN NEWSINGER is Senior Lecturer in History at Bath Spa University College. He is the author of Fenianism in Mid-Victorian Britain and Dangerous Men: The SAS and Popular Culture, and the editor of Shaking the World: John Reed's Revolutionary Journalism.

'My main criticism of this book (a compliment by another name) is that I wanted it to be longer.' - Robert Pearce, History Today 'an extremely useful addition to the literature on Orwell'. - Frank Field, History 'A vigorous thrashing defence of Orwell'. - Robert Colls, History Workshop 'Newsinger has given as good an account of Orwell as a political thinker - never a systematic one, always a stimulating one - as we are likely to find in this generation'. - Bernard Crick, Political Quarterly

• Acknowledgements Introduction Pox Britannica Down Among the Oppressed Spilling the Spanish Beans Only Revolution Can Save England A Choice of Evils The Destruction of the Soviet Myth A Doctor Treating an All but Hopeless Case Conclusion Notes Index