On Captivity: A Spanish Soldier's Experience in a Havana Prison, 1896-1898

by Manuel Ciges Aparicio

On Captivity is the first translation into English of Del Cautiverio, Manuel Ciges Aparicio's account of his imprisonment in the notorious La Caba?a fortress in Havana during the Cuban War of Independence (1895-98). Ciges enlisted in the Spanish army in 1893 at the age of twenty. He served in Africa and then in Cuba, where he opposed Spanish General Valeriano Weyler's policies in Cuba as well as the war itself. Ciges soon found himself...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0817317694
• ISBN13: 9780817317690
• Release Date: August 2012
• Publisher: University Alabama Press
• Length: 264 Pages
• Weight: 1.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.1" x 9.0"