PaPertrenches. Actions related to Great War volunteers in the epistolary relationship between Joan Solé i Pla and Josep Subirà

This article analyzes the epistolary relationship between Joan Solé i Pla and Josep Subirà Puig, two family members who, from Barcelo-na and Madrid, made a commitment to the material help and promotion of Spanish and Catalan volunteers in the ranks of the French Foreign Legion during the First World War. Through their correspondence we seek to analyze the disputed national projections of the discourses on volunteers, and verify the scarcely-studied issue of the important coverage and organization of propaganda on volunteers impelled by Josep Subirà, who, despite everything, maintained a close relationship with Solé i Pla marked by family cordiality and enthusiasm for their mutual alliadophile activities.