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Title: Alamo Sourcebook 1836: A Comprehensive Guide to the Alamo and the Texas Revolution by Timothy J. Todish, Terry Todish, Ted Spring, Timothy J. Toddish, Terry Toddish ISBN: 1-57168-152-3 Publisher: Eakin Publications Pub. Date: March, 1998 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $22.95

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Average Customer Rating: 4 (3 reviews)

Rating: 5
Summary: A "Must Have" for "Alamophiles"
Comment: I had the pleasure to work with Tim Todish, his brother Terry and Ted Spring on this book. They have done an excellent job in bringing the Alamo and the Texas Revolution into perspective. Covering such a broad topic took many, and I do mean MANY hours of research to put it all together. This book has set a standard for future works and it will be hard to top it in quality. I am pleased to have been a small part of the project.

Rating: 3
Summary: Alamo Sourcebook 1836
Comment: The main strength lies in pulling together not only sources such as the people and events themselves, but movies and music about the Alamo as well. I love a well illustrated book and this one has several. Unfortunately this is the book's weakness. Higher quality illustrations and maps could really have made the presentation that much more appealing.

Rating: 4
Summary: This provides a unique compendium on the legendary battle.
Comment: The Alamo sources book combines a wealth of information of every aspect of the Alamo. The author ranges from a description of the mission, through an account of the Texas Mexican War and the fall of the Alamo to participant account and cinematic renderings of the story. Anyone from a reader with a casual interest to a serious student of the battle will find this work both informative and entertaining. A wealth of illustrations accompany the text; some of these border on carictature, but most are well done; drawings of the structure and of weapons and equipment are quite good. The author draws on recent archaeolgical finds and test research to update and correct older information. He includes useful discussions of popular myth while providing an excellent overview of fact. I would strongly recommend this book to anyone with an interest in the Alamo or in the Texas revolution; it also reprresent a useful model for crafting a good historical overview of a particular incident.