A total of 278 unpublished letters from an important group of military and political leaders of our independence deeds are reproduced in The Generals Write. A patrimonial treasure , one of the titles that Ediciones Matanzas will take to the XXX International Book Fair of Havana.

According to Danilo Martínez Carmenate, compiler of this volume, the epistles were conceived by 45 mambises generals, including Máximo Gómez, Antonio Maceo, José Maceo, Calixto García, Bartolomé Masó, José Lacret Morlot, Juan Rius Rivera, Carlos Roloff, Pedro Betancourt, Carlos María de Rojas, Enrique Loynaz del Castillo and Domingo Méndez Capote.

Treasured in the renowned Oscar María de Rojas Cardenense museum, they were written in various circumstances, from the very heat of the independence struggles, between the jungle, the paddocks and the smell of gunpowder, to later stages, already in the dawn and the first decades of the Republican period.

With multiple recipients, the letters refer to the war itself (the same military or political matters as other more personal ones, such as those recommendations by Gómez to his son «Maxito», so that he grows up at home in the absence of his father), to events of the first decades of the Republic and other topics of various kinds.

It is essential to highlight the correspondence of many of these generals with Cardenense Oscar María de Rojas, the so-called father of Cuban museology, who, once the war was over, contacted them in order to request objects or documents of historical value, for the museum that then it would bear his name.

Published in the Los Molinos collection , by Ediciones Matanzas , this epistolary has nearly 400 explanatory notes and biographical data on the generals, valuable complementary information that has been prepared by the compiler of the volume, Danilo Martínez Carmenate, who is head of the Research Department of the Oscar María de Rojas Museum.