Time to Stand - Softcover

Lord, Walter

 
9780803279025: Time to Stand
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0803279027 ISBN 13: 9780803279025
Verlag: UNIV OF NEBRASKA PR, 1978

Inhaltsangabe

On the morning of March 6, 1836, in an old abandoned mission called the Alamo, a small Texas garrison fought to the death rather than yield to an overwhelming army of Mexicans. Through the years the garrison’s heroic stand has become so clothed in folklore and romance that the truth has nearly been lost. In A Time to Stand Walter Lord rediscovers and recreates the whole fascinating story. From contemporary documents, diaries, and letters, he has mined a wealth of fresh information that throws intriguing sidelights on the epic of the Alamo. What were the defenders like? Why did they take their stand? Did any escape? Did Davy Crockett surrender?

The cast of characters includes not only famous figures like Jim Bowie but unknown, unsung men: John Purdy Reynolds, the wandering Pennsylvania surgeon; George Kimball, the industrious New York hatter, Micajah Autry of Tennessee, who was a far better poet than a businessman. And then there are the Mexicans: the fabulous Santa Anna; the smooth Colonel Almonte; the forlorn private Juan Basquez, who only wanted to stay home and make shoes.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Walter Lord is the author of such bestsellers as A Night to Remember, Day of Infamy, and The Good Years: From Nineteen Hundred to the First World War.

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Verlag
UNIV OF NEBRASKA PR
Erscheinungsdatum
1978
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0803279027
ISBN 13 
9780803279025
Einband
Taschenbuch
Anzahl der Seiten
271
Kontakt zum Hersteller
Nicht verfügbar
Verantwortliche Person
Mare Nostrum Group B.V.
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Doelen 72
Breda
4831 GR
Niederlande

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