Abstract
This research focuses on the book "Cuba: justification of its War of Independence", published in the first years of the final war of separation of the Cuban territory (1895-1898) by the exiled journalist and writer Rafael Maria Merchán y Pérez (1844- 1905). In dealing with the War of the Ten Years (1968-1878) and the interwar period (1878-1895), which compose the process of independence o…