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Author : Stanley Stanley
language : en
Publisher: Lulu.com
Release Date : 2006-09-01
Leaving The Alamo written by Stanley Stanley and has been published by Lulu.com this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006-09-01 with Fiction categories.
Here are sixteen stories of middle-aged Texans, combat veterans of Vietnam, who are not in prison, panhandling, or sleeping under bridges. For the most part, they've learned to live with the judgments of their non-serving peers and the war that still goes on in their heads, although one also has murder on his mind.*******Dick Stanley is a retired daily newspaper staff writer in Austin, Texas. He fought in Vietnam in 1969 as an Army lieutenant and light-infantry senior advisor to a South Vietnamese militia unit in the I Corps tactical zone.
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Author : Isaac Newton
language : en
Publisher: AuthorHouse
Release Date : 2013-05-13
Leaving The Alamo written by Isaac Newton and has been published by AuthorHouse this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-05-13 with History categories.
Taken by the masters to engage in a battle against their wills and against a Mexican regime, they knew very little about. General Antonio Lpez de Santa Anna, a dictator in charge of a brigade comprising over five thousand armed soldiers. Jim Bowie, Colonel William Travis lost their lives during the battle. Their slaves did not. Sam, a faithful slave to Jim Bowie and Joe, a committed and honorable slave to Colonel William Travis fought bravely alongside their masters. And after the battle was decided, and defeat, not victory was the outcome, Joe, and Sam not only survived the battle, but gained their freedom from slavery was well. Their biggest fight was not the Battle of the Alamo, but their struggles to make it back into slavery, to be with their families.
Forget The Alamo
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Author : Bryan Burrough
language : en
Publisher: Penguin
Release Date : 2022-06-07
Forget The Alamo written by Bryan Burrough and has been published by Penguin this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-06-07 with History categories.
A New York Times bestseller! “Lively and absorbing. . ." — The New York Times Book Review "Engrossing." —Wall Street Journal “Entertaining and well-researched . . . ” —Houston Chronicle Three noted Texan writers combine forces to tell the real story of the Alamo, dispelling the myths, exploring why they had their day for so long, and explaining why the ugly fight about its meaning is now coming to a head. Every nation needs its creation myth, and since Texas was a nation before it was a state, it's no surprise that its myths bite deep. There's no piece of history more important to Texans than the Battle of the Alamo, when Davy Crockett and a band of rebels went down in a blaze of glory fighting for independence from Mexico, losing the battle but setting Texas up to win the war. However, that version of events, as Forget the Alamo definitively shows, owes more to fantasy than reality. Just as the site of the Alamo was left in ruins for decades, its story was forgotten and twisted over time, with the contributions of Tejanos--Texans of Mexican origin, who fought alongside the Anglo rebels--scrubbed from the record, and the origin of the conflict over Mexico's push to abolish slavery papered over. Forget the Alamo provocatively explains the true story of the battle against the backdrop of Texas's struggle for independence, then shows how the sausage of myth got made in the Jim Crow South of the late nineteenth and early twentieth century. As uncomfortable as it may be to hear for some, celebrating the Alamo has long had an echo of celebrating whiteness. In the past forty-some years, waves of revisionists have come at this topic, and at times have made real progress toward a more nuanced and inclusive story that doesn't alienate anyone. But we are not living in one of those times; the fight over the Alamo's meaning has become more pitched than ever in the past few years, even violent, as Texas's future begins to look more and more different from its past. It's the perfect time for a wise and generous-spirited book that shines the bright light of the truth into a place that's gotten awfully dark.
Remember The Alamo
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Author : J.A. Johnstone
language : en
Publisher: Pinnacle Books
Release Date : 2014-11-20
Remember The Alamo written by J.A. Johnstone and has been published by Pinnacle Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-11-20 with Fiction categories.
The Battle of the Alamo is about to be fought again in this thriller by the USA Today-bestselling author . . . William J. Johnstone, the author of Vengeance Is Mine and Invasion USA sounds another wake-up call with his latest action-packed novel set on America’s most dangerous battleground: its own border. Remember the Alamo Only career politicians could dream up a stunt like this: courting the growing Hispanic community that keeps them in office, the geniuses in charge in San Antonio agree to grant temporary dominion over the Alamo to the Mexican government for a week-long celebration. That doesn't sit too well with Gulf War vet Phil Cody, who remembers his Texas history. With veterans from wars as far back as WWII, Cody organizes a nonviolent protest on the day of the handover. But word comes from Mexico that the reconquistadors—anti-American extremists determined to reassert Mexican control over the southwestern United States by the bloodiest means necessary—are planning to take over the Alamo permanently. Peace becomes war. Despite ample warning, the American authorities twiddle their thumbs when the reconquistadors make their move, leaving it up to Cody and his band of patriots, who are seriously outnumbered and outgunned, to protect the Alamo. Left out to dry by their own government, history repeats itself as Americans are once again besieged and forced to take a stand to preserve their heritage. When this battle is over, America will have a new reason to remember the Alamo . . .
The Alamo Reader
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Author : Todd Hansen
language : en
Publisher: Stackpole Books
Release Date : 2003
The Alamo Reader written by Todd Hansen and has been published by Stackpole Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2003 with History categories.
If everyone was killed inside the Alamo, how do we know what happened? This surprisingly simple question was the genesis for Todd Hansen's compendium of source material on the subject, "The Alamo Reader". Utilising obscure and rare sources along with key documents never before published, Hansen carefully balances the accounts against one another, culminating in the definitive resource for Alamo history.
Leaving The Alamo Texas Stories After Vietnam
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Author : Dick Stanley
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2006-09-06
Leaving The Alamo Texas Stories After Vietnam written by Dick Stanley and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006-09-06 with categories.
More than thirty years after the Vietnam war was lost, its aging American combat veterans cope with the judgments of their stay-at-home peers and the fighting that still goes on in their heads. Here are sixteen stories of middle-aged Texans who are not in prison, panhandling on street corners or sleeping under bridges. They have learned to live, with varying success, with the dreams that stalk them at night and lurk in the background during the day, although one also has murder on his mind. Another has a new baby whose birth surprisingly snuffed all of his father's war nightmares, except for one that gained new meaning as it moved to the daytime. Two have memento mori from the battlefield which they would like to be rid of, but only one may have finally found a way. And a widowed career officer spends his nights in the locked Alamo shrine seeking redemption for an old hero. You may contact the author at [email protected]
The Alamo Wing
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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1981
The Alamo Wing written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1981 with Air bases categories.
Exploring The Alamo Legends
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Author : Wallace O. Chariton
language : en
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Release Date : 1992
Exploring The Alamo Legends written by Wallace O. Chariton and has been published by Rowman & Littlefield this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1992 with Alamo (San Antonio, Tex.) categories.
Exploring the Alamo legends sheds some new light onto a few of the shadows of the Alamo legends.
Arliss At The Alamo
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Author : Connie Callender Lindsay
language : en
Publisher: AuthorHouse
Release Date : 2010-07
Arliss At The Alamo written by Connie Callender Lindsay and has been published by AuthorHouse this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-07 with Fiction categories.
The Alamo
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Author : Don Nardo
language : en
Publisher: Greenhaven Publishing LLC
Release Date : 2012-12-17
The Alamo written by Don Nardo and has been published by Greenhaven Publishing LLC this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-12-17 with Young Adult Nonfiction categories.
The Alamo often conjures up images of rugged frontiersmen, the likes of Davy Crockett and James Bowie, shoring up the defenses of the fort against the forces of General Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna. These events did take place, but The Alamo was a small flashpoint in a wider struggle for control of a strategically vital region known as Texas. Seen as a bulwark against the French and British empires to the north, the newly independent nation of Mexico had to secure the territory or risk encroachment on its northern border. This compelling volume examines The Alamo within the wider context of the struggle for control of Texas. Chapters explain the events that led to the battle, provide a gripping description of the siege itself with detailed discussions of the primary figures involved, and describe the legacy of this lost battle to American politics and culture.