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Tanaka, Shelley

The Alamo: Surrounded and Outnumbered, They Chose to Make a Defiant Last Stand

(3) 4-6 Day That Changed America series. Illustrated by David Craig. In these portraits of two legendary U.S. battles, archival photos and reproductions, maps, sidebars, and boxed quotations from participants enhance Tanaka's detailed narrative. The text is also enlivened by dialogue from first-person accounts and by Craig's painterly illustrations. Reading list, websites. Glos., ind. [Review covers these Day That Changed America titles: The Alamo and Gettysburg.]

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