The origins of Sofía Casanova’s journalistic work during first days of World War I

Abstract

El Ideal Gallego publishes between 1919 and 1920, as a serial of five articles, the personal notes written by the Spanish journalist Sofía Casanova during the first days of the war in Poland. Under the title “En los caminos del fuego y la nieve”, those articles, that do not appear gathered in any of the hemerographic listings of Sofía Casanova’s work until the moment, allow to reconstruct a detailed account of the first days of the war in Poland near to the Eastern front. Sofía Casanova (1861-1958) was one of the most important journalists of Spain, al less during the period between the two world wars of the past century, mainly due to her work as ABC’s journal correspondent in the Eastern front of the European war first, in San Petersburgo during the Revolution of October, in the convulsed Poland between wars and finally, although much more sporadically, in the afflicted Warsaw of II the second World War.