Texian Iliad: A Military History of the Texas Revolution
Austin, University of Texas Press, 1994. ISBN 0-292-73102-7

For gamers who want to recreate the entire war for Texas' independence, the best book is probably Stephen L. Hardin, TEXIAN ILIAD: A MILITARY HISTORY OF THE TEXAS REVOLUTION Hardin has written a lengthy and detailed account of the campaigns and battles from the outbreak of violence in the fall of 1835 through San Jacinto in April of 1836. The text is supplemented by ten drawings and seven maps by Gary S. Zaboly (different from those in the Huffines book).

The map of the Alamo in this book agrees with the Alamo map in Huffines but the view is from the opposite direction; this combination gives the modeler and game planner an all-around view.

Hardin's book was originally a Ph.D. dissertation and is fully footnoted and contains an extensive bibliography, although this reviewer wishes he had also done a bibliographic essay evaluating the twenty pages of sources he cites.

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