A Time to Stand
The Epic of the Alamo
The #1 New York Times-bestselling author of Day of Infamy tells the story of the Texans who fought Santa Anna's troops at the Battle of the Alamo. Looking out over the walls of the whitewashed Alamo, sweltering in the intense sun of a February heat wave, Colonel William Travis knew his small garrison had little chance of holding back the Mexican army. Even after a call for reinforcements brought dozens of Texans determined to fight for their fledgling republic, the cause remained hopeless. Gunpowder was scarce, food was running out, and the compound was too large to easily defend with less than two hundred soldiers. Still, given the choice, o…
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Produktdetails
- ISBN: 978-1-4532-3844-8
- EAN: 9781453238448
- Produktnummer: 22292068
- Verlag: Open Road Media
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2012
- Seitenangabe: 252 S.
- Plattform: EPUB
- Masse: 2'483 KB
Über den Autor
Walter Lord (1917-2002) was an acclaimed and bestselling author of literary nonfiction best known for his gripping and meticulously researched accounts of watershed historical events. His first book was The Fremantle Diary (1954), a volume of Civil War diaries that became a surprising success. But it was Lord's next book, A Night to Remember (1955), that made him famous. Lord went on to use the book's interview-heavy format as a template for most of his following works, which included detailed reconstructions of the Pearl Harbor attack in Day of Infamy (1957), the battle of Midway in Incredible Victory (1967), and the integration of the University of Mississippi in The Past That Would Not Die (1965).
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