The Blood of Heroes: The 13-Day Struggle for the Alamo--and the Sacrifice That Forged a Nation by James Donovan
My rating: 3 of 5 stars
With a title like "Blood of Heroes", I expected a work playing to the semi-legendary status of the last, hopeless, desperate, and near mythical stand that had the seeming impossible attendance of Bowie, Crocket, and Travis. However, especially the first, dragging half earns the book the dry, detailed title of "A Military History of the Texan War for Independence", or something. However, things pick up when the author "cuts to the chase" for the actual fall of The Alamo, the later massacre at Goliad and the ignomious fall of the Napoleonic Santa Anna in discarded slave's clothes. An Afterword gives a long, very detailed discussion of the sources and veracity of Travis' drawn line in the sand and the most famous 'survivor' Louis "Moses" Rose. Brief but detailed life stories of other key survivors precedes this.
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