
A Time to Stand
The Epic of the Alamo
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Narrated by:
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Norman Dietz
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By:
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Walter Lord
On the morning of March 6, 1836, in an old abandoned mission called the Alamo, a small Texas garrison, fought to the death rather than yield to an overwhelming army of Mexicans. Through the years, the garrison's heroic stand has become so clothed in folklore and romance that the truth has nearly been lost. In A Time to Stand, Walter Lord rediscovers and recreates the whole fascinating story.
From contemporary documents, diaries, and letters, he has mined a wealth of fresh information that throws intriguing sidelights on the epic of the Alamo. What were the defenders like? Why did they take their stand? Did any escape? Did Davy Crockett surrender?
The cast of characters includes not only famous figures like Jim Bowie but unknown, unsung men: John Purdy Reynolds, the wandering Pennsylvania surgeon; George Kimball, the industrious New York hatter; Micajah Autry of Tennessee, who was a far better poet than a businessman. And then there are the Mexicans: the fabulous Santa Anna; the smooth Colonel Almonte; the forlorn private Juan Basquez, who only wanted to stay home and make shoes.
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Fascinating
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A narrator who can’t pronounce correctly.
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The sad part was the narration. One would think that the producers of this book could have come up with a better choice. First of all, the cadence was so annoyingly slow that I had to speed it up to 1.25 speed on my device. This is the second book I have listened to this month featuring this narrator and I had to do the same on the other one. His pronunciations of locales, especially early in the book was atrocious, especially the names Nacogdoches, Bexar and Sabine. Later in the narration, he seemed to get the first of these somewhat corrected, but never Sabine. It doesn’t really matter to most but it bothered me that the editor/publisher didn’t do a little research. The narrator should have enough pride in his profession to maybe do a little himself. I know that movie/television actors do research on historical roles they play. He to is an actor so he too is culpable.
Okay book. Atrocious narration.
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Remember the Alamo
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the overall well researched and well told story.
God Bless Texas!
Enthralling
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Well paced narration. Solid storytelling.
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The author delves deeply into backstories on so many of the principals, I came away feeling like I knew many of them. He also wove together the timelines in a way that enabled me to gain a much better grasp on the entire story.
BRILLIANT in every way.
All of this was a bit dulled by the abysmal pronunciation of so many of places and things that make up this stirring story. Really now, take the time to read the script first then ask for help with the words you are damn well not able to pronounce correctly. This shortcoming was shameful.
Solid history with a lot of backstory
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Amazing
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Anglo Saxon gibberish
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Great Story
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