My life/Mi vida

A self-educated Madrid taxi-driver who became a Commander in the Republican Army, Pedro Santos Troya held a number of positions of responsibility, and rubbed shoulders with several people in high places. After release from prison, his involvement in clandestine operations run from the French Embassy in Madrid during the Second World War eventually forced him into hiding before escaping to France. While imprisoned, his wife ran a safe house for officers fleeing the Gestapo. Between them, these activities earned them a good pension in their old age from a grateful French government.

These memoirs, recorded by a very ordinary man living through extraordinary times, is entitled to a place among the many books written by the historians and famous writers who never lived them as he did.