I found the book to be a very fine read indeed, and recommend it to you all. Its focus is on the lives of Crockett, Bowie, and Travis, and therefore most of the book is not about the Texas revolution at all; but they come together at the Alamo, and there is a very fine day-by-day account of the siege. The author is a historian/author, and has written various pieces on the Alamo and other subjects. The full details of the book are:...By rights it should have been his [Travis's] name on the declaration, for no one had done more to bring it about. Yet he had gone far beyond that piece of paper. Out there in the Alamo, in the face pf perhaps ten times his numbers, he and his garrison for the last twelve days had made of themselves a living declaration, a human document that Texians could not hold in their hands, but must ever clasp in their hearts.
And they had given Texians -- and Americans -- a definition of bravery. Not the sort of courage that Bowie showed in a spontaneous battle at the Sandbar, or of the man who in the last seconds of his life dies well. Few, even the strongest and most resolute, could really control their deaths in battle, for that lay as much in the hands of chance and their slayers. The better bravery, the real courage, lay in the fact that for nearly two weeks Travis, Crockett, Bowie, and the rest knowingly placed and kept themselves in harms way, aware each day that the Mexicans could overwhelm them at the next dawn, and yet they stayed....
Three Roads to the Alamo: The Lives and Fortunes of David Crockett, James Bowie, and William Travis Barret, by William C. Davis.