Josep Conangla (b. 1875, Montblanc, Spain; d. 1965, Havana, Cuba) was a twenty-year-old law student when he was conscripted to serve in the Cuban War of Independence (1895–1898). He evaded active duty because of connections in Spain but worked in an infirmary, among other duties, and was a keen observer of his milieu and of important events, including the sinking of the USS Maine. Repatriated to Spain in 1898, Conangla became a journalist and enjoyed some success as a poet. In 1905 he returned to Cuba to live and write. He was a harsh critic of Spanish colonialism in Cuba and elsewhere and an advocate of Cuban and later Catalan independence. Conangla completed his memoir in 1958.Joaquín Roy is the Jean Monnet Professor of European Integration, the director of the University of Miami European Union Center, and a codirector of the Miami-Florida European Union Center of Excellence. He is the author or coauthor of many works, including The Cuban Revolution (1959–2009): Relations with Spain, the European Union, and the United States and Historical Dictionary of the European Union.D. J. Walker is a professor emerita at the University of New Orleans. She translated On Captivity: A Spanish Soldier's Experience in a Havana Prison, 1896–1898 and is the author of Spanish Women and the Colonial Wars of the 1890s.

“Memoir of My Youth in Cuba, an antiwar statement, has a universal resonance.” —Teresa Prados-Torreira, author of Mambisas: Rebel Women in Nineteenth-Century Cuba

Josep Conangla (b. 1875, Montblanc, Spain; d. 1965, Havana, Cuba) was a twenty-year-old law student when he was conscripted to serve in the Cuban War of Independence (1895–1898). He evaded active duty because of connections in Spain but worked in an infirmary, among other duties, and was a keen observer of his milieu and of important events, including the sinking of the USS Maine. Repatriated to Spain in 1898, Conangla became a journalist and enjoyed some success as a poet. In 1905 he returned to Cuba to live and write. He was a harsh critic of Spanish colonialism in Cuba and elsewhere and an advocate of Cuban and later Catalan independence. Conangla completed his memoir in 1958.Joaquín Roy is the Jean Monnet Professor of European Integration, the director of the University of Miami European Union Center, and a codirector of the Miami-Florida European Union Center of Excellence. He is the author or coauthor of many works, including The Cuban Revolution (1959–2009): Relations with Spain, the European Union, and the United States and Historical Dictionary of the European Union.D. J. Walker is a professor emerita at the University of New Orleans. She translated On Captivity: A Spanish Soldier's Experience in a Havana Prison, 1896–1898 and is the author of Spanish Women and the Colonial Wars of the 1890s.

“Memoir of My Youth in Cuba, an antiwar statement, has a universal resonance.” —Teresa Prados-Torreira, author of Mambisas: Rebel Women in Nineteenth-Century Cuba