La Velada En Benicarló is more than a historical book, it is a chronicle of the Spanish civil war and Azaña's political testament. In it, the author keeps the postulates that form the basis of his moral concept of politics and of his intellectual attitude: his concept of politics as something reasonable, his idea of ​​the state as the engine of civilizing reform, and his constant devotion to freedom. The book meets two important objectives. On the one hand, its value is immense for current generations to better understand the war and the Republic and, on the other, it reflects the real dimension of its author: the man of reason, the persistent liberal that not even in the hardest moments of his life did he lose his love for Spain and freedom.