Editing Homage to Catalonia (section)

===Chapter three===
In the hills around Zaragoza, Orwell experiences the "mingled boredom and discomfort of [[trench warfare|stationary warfare]]," the mundaneness of a situation in which "each army had dug itself in and settled down on the hill-tops it had won." He praises the Spanish [[militia]]s for their relative [[social equality]], for their holding of the front while the army was trained in the rear, and for the "democratic 'revolutionary' type of discipline ... more reliable than might be expected." "'Revolutionary' discipline depends on political consciousness—on an understanding of ''why'' orders must be obeyed; it takes time to diffuse this, but it also takes time to drill a man into an automaton on the barrack-square".<ref name="Penguin1">George Orwell ''Homage to Catalonia''. Penguin Books 2013. p. 29.</ref>

Throughout the chapter Orwell describes the various shortages and problems at the front—firewood ("We were between two and three thousand feet above sea-level, it was mid winter and the cold was unspeakable"),<ref name="Penguin1" /> food, candles, tobacco, and adequate munitions—as well as the danger of accidents inherent in a badly trained and poorly armed group of soldiers.