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Book Review


Sacrificed at the Alamo: Tragedy and Triumph in the Texas Revolution. By Richard Bruce Winders. (Abilene, TX: State House Press, 2004. 167 pp. Illustrations, maps, appendices, notes, index. $24.95.)
      New additions to the saga of the Alamo were anxiously awaited by both the general public and Texas Revolution specialists in 2004. Disney's film, The Alamo (John Lee Hancock, 2004), was released to mixed reviews, but the new book by Richard Bruce Winders (historian and curator of the actual Alamo) has been receiving good reviews, and with good reason. The book's title, Sacrificed at the Alamo: Tragedy and Triumph in the Texas Revolution is certainly more evocative than the movie's, conjuring up images of black powder smoke from ill-placed cannons on the walls of the old mission compound and bloody efforts to repel Santa Anna's ladder-climbing assault forces. However, the fight to defend the Alamo is not the focus of Winders's work. . . .
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