With Santa Anna in Texas: A Personal Narrative of the Revolution
The discovery of an additional week's worth of entries in the diary of José Enrique de la Peña has opened another chapter in the longstanding controversy over the authenticity of the Mexican officer’s account of the Battle of the Alamo.\ In this expanded edition of With Santa Anna in Texas, Texas Revolution scholar James E. Crisp, who discovered the new diary entries in an untranslated manuscript version of the journal, discusses the history of the de la Peña diary controversy and presents...
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\ Publishers Weekly\ - Publisher's Weekly\ The wartime diary of a Mexican army officer includes a description of the fall of the Alamo and of Davy Crockett's subsequent execution. (Sept.)\ \
