Alamo: Victory or Death on the Texas Frontier (America's Living History)

Warrick, Karen Clemens

ISBN 10: 0766029379 ISBN 13: 9780766029378

Publisher: Enslow Pub Inc, 2008

Synopsis

Enhanced with sidebars and colorful maps, each book in this engaging series focuses on an event or era in American history, spanning from the time before Columbus' arrival to the September 11 terrorist attacks.

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From Booklist:

This entry in the America’s Living History series retells the dramatic tale of the Alamo, placing it in historical context while highlighting contradictions found in reports at the time as well as in later accounts of the battle. Warrick wraps a detailed account of the siege’s events around a look at the European settlement of what would become Texas, chapters on Santa Anna’s subsequent defeat and the rest of his long career, an account of the Mexican War of 1846, and information relating to the modern restoration efforts of the site. Illustrated with a mix of older paintings and newer reconstructions, and supported by relatively extensive endnotes and a reading list, the level of detail in this assignment title falls somewhere between Tom McGowen’s Alamo (2003) and such upper middle-grade treatments as Shelley Tanaka’s Day That Changed America: The Alamo (2003). Grades 4-7. --John Peters

About this edition

• Publisher: Enslow Pub Inc
• Publication date: 2008
• ISBN 10: 0766029379
• ISBN 13: 9780766029378
• Binding: Library Binding
• Number of pages: 128