El Alamo: Una historia no apta para Hollywood (Spanish Edition)

Trade Paperback 243 pages. Condition Very Good Issued with NO Dust Jacket. Reprint edition 2015. Striking illustrated wraps shows off this Clean, tight, square copy with no marks, highlights or bookplates. Book Well kept and carefully stored in unread condition. Slight shelf wear - bubbles on cover where plastic has delaminated. Also a few scrapes and scratches. Not an ex-library, book club or remainder copy.

The Battle of the Alamo represented for Mexico an inconsequential victory in the war against the rebellious settlers who sought the independence of Texas. For the United States, it is the cornerstone that would give new meaning to its concept of nation and the empire it would become. What really happened? Why does an unimportant battle concentrate the black heart of the American empire?

Paco Ignacio Taibo II meticulously reconstructs the facts and tells us how they lied, deceived, heroics were fabricated and weaknesses were omitted in pursuit of the legend. The Alamo aims to open the door to debate on an event that until now had been a tiny footnote in a history that has been decreed forgotten in Mexico. Because far from the American rhetoric of "they fought to give us freedom, that's all we need to know," there's a lot we need to know. Much more.

La batalla de El Álamo representó para México una victoria sin trascendencia en la guerra contra los colonos rebeldes que buscaban la independencia de Texas. Para Estados Unidos se trata de la piedra angular que daría un nuevo sentido a su concepto de nación y al imperio en el que se convertiría.

¿Qué ocurrió realmente? ¿Por qué una batalla sin mayor importancia concentra el corazón negro del imperio norteamericano? Paco Ignacio Taibo II reconstruye minuciosamente los hechos y nos cuenta cómo se mintió, se engañó, se fabricaron heroicidades y se omitieron flaquezas en pos de la leyenda.

El Álamo pretende abrir la puerta del debate sobre un hecho que hasta ahora había sido una minúscula nota de pie de página en una historia que se ha decretado como olvidada en México. Porque lejos de la retórica estadounidense de "lucharon para darnos libertad, eso es todo lo que necesitamos saber", es mucho lo que necesitamos saber. Mucho más.