Vida y sacrificio de Companys

Synopsis of Vida y sacrificio de Companys

«Vida y sacrificio de Companys» is the biography by Ángel Ossorio y Gallardo of Lluís Companys, published by Memorial Democràtic in paperback, 336 pp.

Ángel Ossorio y Gallardo wrote in exile a biographical portrait of Lluís Companys, president of Catalonia during the Second Republic, arrested in occupied France and executed by Franco in 1940. The author champions his figure as a republican, federalist and left-wing Catalanist, and his aspiration that all Spain understand Catalonia.

Published in 2010 by Memorial Democràtic of the Generalitat in the Voces críticas collection; paperback, 336 pages, in Spanish, with a prologue by Miquel Caminal i Badia.

For readers interested in the history of Catalonia, the Second Republic and the republican exile.