José Javier Esparza (Valencia, 1963), writer and journalist, has spent years dedicated to the task of rebuilding the Spanish identity from its History. Proof of this is his successful trilogy The Reconquest, of which tens of thousands of copies have been sold, The Ocean Crusade, on the discovery and conquest of America, The history of jihad, Such a day as today. Almanac of the History of Spain, Tercios. Illustrated history of the legendary Spanish infantry and Visigoths. The true history of the first Spain. Along the same lines his historical novels abound on the early days of the Reconquest: The Knight of the White Boar, The Northern Kingdom and The Demons of the Sea