A Time to Stand: The Epic of the Alamo

By Walter Lord

Categories: History

Walter Lord reconstructs the Alamo's thirteen-day siege in 1836, following William Travis, Jim Bowie, David Crockett and the garrison inside the old mission and Santa Anna's army outside, drawing on letters, diaries and accounts from both sides. A closing section, Riddles of the Alamo, weighs the evidence behind the legends, questioning whether Travis really drew a line in the sand and suggesting that Crockett may have died after the battle. This edition reprints the 1961 original.

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