Since 2010 I was looking for this book after seeing it in the Alamo gift shop but back then cared more about toys than books. I have heard it constantly ranked as the best Alamo book out there. I am very picky when it comes to Alamo books and decided to roll the dice and see how good The Blood of Noble Men really is.
As far as pictures go, it is hands down the best. The artwork is superb and I have seen several of the pictures in Alamo children's books before and on my last visit in May 2018 some of the pictures were shown marking sites where fighting took place. That is the best thing about the book, and the huge maps showing every day of the siege.
The book is entirely accounts of people who were there in 1836. There is a brief introduction by the author for each day of the siege and his comments in a page explaining the events shown in the artwork. Although the accounts were very interesting to read, many contradicted each other. This is not the fault of the author, as this is common in Alamo accounts. It is a shame the author did not write his own telling of the story and there is no reason why he couldn't have. There are books 600 or more pages long devoted to one battle. Had this book done that, it would hands down be the best and I dare say definitive account of the siege and battle of the Alamo. However, to be fair a large part of the narrative of the fighting I have read in other Alamo books after this one was pretty much the exact same words as these accounts, they just didn't write or identify it as such. Hopefully in the future someone can write a military history purely on the 13 day fight in their own words. Until then, The Blood of Noble Men will have to do.
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