Un Aviador De La República

Behind the pseudonym of Joan de Milany is hidden discreetly a former officer of the Republican army, more specifically an airplane pilot. His youth coincided with the Spanish Civil War and, like so many other boys, he found in it a risky path for the projection of his inner world, made up of contradictory experiences and barely glimpsed ideals.

Now, from the height of his maturity, Joan de Milany remembers that past, with nostalgia and skepticism: the bombings, the aerial combats, the exaltation of victories and the bitter taste of defeat, the unsuspected background of some men who, suddenly, the proximity of death makes appear naked...

The descriptions in this brief book of memoirs-one more, devoted to the Spanish Civil War-are lively, realistic, and passionate.

This book is a collection of memories of the Spanish Civil War, written by one of the many fighters of the Republic's fighter aircraft. It does not claim to make history or to draw consequences, but only to reflect as faithfully as possible impressions lived impetuously and that, precisely for this reason, can’t have the cold objectivity of a chronicle.

According to its author, D. Juan Sayós Estivill: "when reviewing these memories, confesses, I warn that they are impregnated with pessimistic fatalism and I sincerely regret it. But to live a war followed by a defeat - and in my case there were two - is not very favorable to preserve illusions...”

Barcelona, autumn 1971.

Author: D. Juan Sayós Estivill

Publisher: Craftair

Language: Spanish

Format: Hardcover

Size: 23.8 cm. X 17.8 cm.

No. of pages: 227

ISBN: 8492345047