La guerra que yo viví : Mi vida y mi tiempo

The journey of the protagonist of this book, like that of an entire nation, is marked by the outbreak of its Civil War. Enlisted in the Artillery, he survives the siege of Garabitas and the tragedy of La Marañosa, and the brutal scenes he witnessed, coupled with the fatal loss of close comrades, indelibly forge his character. The future mayor who aspired to make Seville a southern European metropolis dedicates these lines to his admirably encyclopedic recollections of the world that shaped him, of that inner history of horror and heroism (and everyday life) that only he could recount. His testimony humanizes an era depersonalized by the official narrative. He was a member of the Cortes (Spanish Parliament), held the honorary mayorship of municipalities both in Spain and abroad, possessed the keys to six North American cities, and Oklahoma City appointed him "chief cattle marker on the other side of the Great Blue Waters." But before all that, Félix Moreno de la Cova had fought a thousand battles. He tells it here.