Inside The Texas Revolution. The Enigmatic Memoir Of Herman Ehrenberg

CRISP, JAMES E. [EDITED BY] WITH THE ASSISTANCE OF LOUIS E. BRISTER

Publication: Texas State Historical Association, 2021, Austin

First edition. First printing of this translation in English. 8vo. Translated by Louis E. Brister, with the assistance of James C. Kearney. Black boards, titles stamped in gilt on the spine, xxiv [2], 653 pp., editor's preface, editor's acknowledgement, translator's preface, abbreviations used in the notes and bibliography, introduction, illustrated, portraits, maps, chapter endnotes, epilogue, coda, appendix, bibliography. index. This massive memoir is considered the most complete, and most vivid Memoir of any soldier in the Texas revolutionary army. Ehrenberg was not a historian, but an ordinary citizen whose narrative of the Texas Revolution contains both spectacular eyewitness accounts of action and almost mythologized versions of major events that he did not witness himself. The editors point out where Ehrenberg is lying or embellishing, explains why he is doing so, and narrates the actual relevant facts as far as they can be determined.” As new, unread copy in dust jacket.

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