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Title: With Santa Anna in Texas: A Personal Narrative of the Revolution by Jose Enrique De La Pena, Carmen Perry, Jose Enrique De La Pena ISBN: 0-89096-527-7 Publisher: Texas A&M University Press Pub. Date: March, 1997 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $16.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.57 (14 reviews)
Rating: 3
Summary: Controversial, but still worth reading
Comment: Few books on the Texas Revolution have caused as much furor as this book, and it's primarily because of the brief description of David Crockett's death after the fall of the Alamo. With just a few short sentances, De La Pena earned the wrath of many modern day historians. To suggest that the imortal Davy cowered in fear and begged for his life was unthinkable, especially to "baby boomers". But, for all the nay-sayers out there, if you read this part of the text CAREFULLY, it makes NO SUCH CLAIM. And hero worship is hardly a reason to condemn the work. Taken as a whole, it's obvious that De La Pena was an observant, articulate and some would say a compassionate individual. What many scholars are unaware of, is that De La Pena dictated these pages while he was in prison for his opposition to the Santanista regime. He was deathly ill at the time, and it's very likely that De La Pena put more than a little of his anger towards "El Presidente" into the "diary" Some have suggested that the description of Crockett's death was exaggerated and was recorded as more fodder to use against Santa Anna. Only time will tell
Rating: 1
Summary: Believing in this is like believing in the tooth fairy!
Comment: This book is a bunch of bunk.
I cannot reccomend this to any serious sudent of Alamo and Texas history.
If Pena wrote any of it, it was the first few pages that covered the march to Texas. Nothing else.
It is a forgery plain and simple and painfuly obvious.
There are so many errors in it that it is ludicrous to believe in it. But there are those who do and it is their right to be so misinformed.
If you really want to study this subject, leave out this book and all the revisionist authors who believe in it.
Rating: 4
Summary: Very important Alamo document. Critiques often fantasy.
Comment: De La Pena presents a battle recollection not unlike many soldiers' accounts. Perhaps miscounting the numbers of burning corpses on a pyre, or the number of men killed and wounded, etc.,as many memoirs do, he nevertheless opens a window to the horrors and cruelties of the battle and its aftermath. Bayonets or no bayonets? Note that in a report of the inventories of arms and equipment in the town, the arsenal, and the Alamo itself, turned over to Col. F. W. Johnson by subordinates of General Cos in Dec, 1835, there were 257 carbines and muskets, 50 muskets with bayonets, two barrels containing 166 bayonets,thousands of musket cartridges, and hundreds of pounds of powder. The Texans had more ammunition and weaponry than they could use,plenty of bayonets included. There was more artillery in the fort (est 13 -21 guns) than in the Mexican army (10 guns). What the Texans lacked was manpower to use all that equipment. Maybe some of them did stack loaded weapons in ready. Flintlocks can be loaded, but not primed...it's the priming that usually dampens and causes misfires (personal experience). Some of the defenders were members of militia units and knew how to handle military weapons. De La Pena's views actually lean toward much that is verified elsewhere, but they often are contrary to many of the fanciful beliefs and various speculations associated with this battle. His description of the prisoner incident is a genuine attempt by a soldier to record a brutal event that he found to be distasteful and dishonorable...not unlike Crockett's own recollection of his disgust with the Creek War. This book should be carefully read and evaluated by any student of the Alamo. De La Pena is certainly more likely to have been an eyewitness, than any of his modern critics, regardless of whether or not he made errors.
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Title: Eyewitness to the Alamo (Revised Edition) by Bill Groneman, Paul Andrew Hutton ISBN: 1556228465 Publisher: Republic of Texas Pr Pub. Date: 30 June, 2001 List Price(USD): $18.95 |
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Title: Texian Iliad : A Military History of the Texas Revolution by Stephen L. Hardin, Gary S. Zaboly ISBN: 0292731027 Publisher: Univ of Texas Press Pub. Date: 1996 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
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Title: Alamo Traces: New Evidence and New Conclusions by Thomas Ricks Lindley, Stephen Harrigan ISBN: 1556229836 Publisher: Republic of Texas Pr Pub. Date: September, 2003 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
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Title: A Time to Stand by Walter Lord ISBN: 0803279027 Publisher: Univ of Nebraska Pr Pub. Date: September, 1978 List Price(USD): $13.95 |
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Title: The Breach by Brian Kaufman ISBN: 0972044205 Publisher: Last Knight Publishing Company Pub. Date: June, 2002 List Price(USD): $12.95 |
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