A gut-wrenching adventure, The Diezmo tells the story of one of the most absurd and tragic military adventures in American history.In the early days of the Republic of Texas, two young men, barely sixteen years old and wild for glory, impulsively volunteer for a military expedition assigned to patrol the Mexican border.After being captured in a raid on the Mexican village of Mier, the men of the expedition are sentenced to the grisly diezmo, in which a random selection by bean lottery condemns one man in ten to death.The imprisoned survivors make a desperate last-ditch bid for freedom -- with tragic results.
- ISBN:
- 9780618710508
- 9780618710508
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Category:
- Historical Fiction
- Format:
- Paperback
- Publication Date:
-
01-06-2006
- Language:
- English
- Publisher:
- Houghton Mifflin
- Country of origin:
- United States
- Pages:
- 224
- Dimensions (mm):
- 210x140x13mm
- Weight:
- 0.24kg
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