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Marty <MSchoemick@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> I read this book that I borrowed a few years back and its about a
> group of scientists who upon discovering a very large oil deposit
> decide to go back in time to make sure that American wins the
> battle of The Alamo. If anyone can help me find the title and
> author Id really appreciate it. Marty.
It may very well be REMEMBER THE ALAMO! by Kevin D. Randle and
Robert Cornett, published in 1986.
It's Amazon listing <http://www.amazon.com//gp/product/0441713254>
includes a reader's review that says:
A wealthy oil tycoon sends a heavily armed band of mercenaries
back in time to aid in defending the Alamo from General Santa
Ana's 5,000 plus man army hoping to gain prime, oil rich real
estate in the present. Action is never in short supply as
thousands of Mexican Army regulars hopelessly assault the fort
with black powder rifles and bayonettes only to be met with
automatic weapon fire, claymore mines, and seasoned 20th century
soldiers. The setting is historically very accurate, and the
ending is both a surprise and a moral wrapped into one.
By the way, twenty years later Randle, writing solo, apparently
referenced his own earlier work in his 2006 novel THE GATE -- at
page 213 (per Amazon's "read inside" tool) we find:
Blinking rapidly, unsure of what time it was or how long he'd
been asleep, he asked "What isn't going to work?"
"All this theorizing about time travel. No one knows anything
about it. We could screw up human history by making some
subtle change in the past. Isaac Asimov suggested that in a
novel where they were making the minimum change necessary to
create a positive effect at some future time. Wilson Tucker
had travelers roaming through history to record and explore
historical events but being careful not to interact too much
with the people they met. There was a book about the Alamo
where time travelers went back to win the battle and change
history, but they had to keep moving around in time to prevent
drastic changes in the future, and I'm not sure they ever got
it right."
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William December Starr <wdstarr@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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