"Never before has the fall of the Alamo been portrayed with such immediacy. And for the first time the story is told not just from the perspective of the American defenders but from that of the Mexican attackers as well. We follow Blas Montoya, a sergeant in an elite sharpshooter company, as he fights to keep his men alive not only in the inferno of battle but also during the long forced march north from Mexico proper to Texas.
And through the eyes of the ambitious mapmaker Telesforo Villasenor, we witness the cold deliberations of General Santa Anna." "Filled with dramatic scenes, abounding in fictional and historical personalities - among them James Bowie, David Crockett, and William Travis - The Gates of the Alamo enfolds us in history."--BOOK JACKET.
Book Details
Format
mass_market
ISBN-10
0142004294
ISBN-13
9780142004296
Publication Date
Dec 2003
Item Weight
0.80 pounds
Length
6.77 inch
Width
4.29 inch
Height
1.26 inch
First Sentence
IN THE EARLY spring of 1835 an American botanist named Edmund McGowan travelled southeast from Bexar on the La Bahia road, following the course of the San Antonio River as it made its unhurried way through the oak mottes and prairies of Mexican Texas.
