Clandestine correspondence. Josep Turon Mir. 291 days facing death. Letters from the Gerona prison (1940), by José Casadellà Turón, which publishes the writings that his grandfather, José Turón, sentenced to death, bequeathed to his friend Josep Alsina, also to the Gerona prison. Both were aware that they were risking their skin if the messages were intercepted. Written in quite correct Catalan, they narrate the day-to-day life in the refrigerator, the stings-shootings, the moments of humor and coexistence with cellmates... Probably the families of those who were shot were never able to know these experiences because to the censorship of official correspondence.

Josep Casadellà's book reveals how, after the entry of Franco's army, an enormous apparatus of repression was launched through purges, political responsibility courts, seizures and very summary courts-martial. This was the case, among many others, of Josep Turon Mir, local leader of the agricultural union Unión de Rabassaries in 1934 and mayor of Santa Coloma de Farners from September 9 to October 21, 1937, who was tried by a Military Court in Summary Emergency Council, with the prosecutor's request for the death penalty.