September Sacrifice

September Sacrifice
Title September Sacrifice PDF eBook
Author Mark Horner
Publisher Kensington Books
Pages 436
Release 2008-07-29
Genre True Crime
ISBN 9780786019410

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Describes the disappearance of Malaysian-born bank teller Girly Chew and the efforts of law enforcement investigators to bring to justice her estranged husband, Diazien Hossencofft, a ruthless con man and murderer.

September Sacrifice

September Sacrifice
Title September Sacrifice PDF eBook
Author Mark Horner
Publisher Pinnacle Books
Pages 436
Release 2005
Genre True Crime
ISBN 9780786016631

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Describes the disappearance of Malaysian-born bank teller Girly Chew and the efforts of law enforcement investigators to bring to justice her estranged husband, Diazien Hossencofft, a ruthless con man and murderer.

Ohio at Antietam: The Buckeye State’s Sacrifice on America’s Bloodiest Day

Ohio at Antietam: The Buckeye State’s Sacrifice on America’s Bloodiest Day
Title Ohio at Antietam: The Buckeye State’s Sacrifice on America’s Bloodiest Day PDF eBook
Author Kevin R. Pawlak and Dan Welch
Publisher Arcadia Publishing
Pages 160
Release 2021-08
Genre History
ISBN 1467146919

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Among the thousands who fought in the pivotal Battle of Antietam were scores of Ohioans. Sending eleven regiments and two batteries to the fight, the Buckeye State lost hundreds during the Maryland Campaign's first engagement, South Mountain, and hundreds more "gave their last full measure of devotion" at the Cornfield, the Bloody Lane and Burnside's Bridge. Many of these brave men are buried at the Antietam National Cemetery. Aged veterans who survived the ferocious contest returned to Antietam in the early 1900s to fight for and preserve the memory of their sacrifices all those years earlier. Join Kevin Pawlak and Dan Welch as they explore Ohio's role during those crucial hours on September 17, 1862.

A Spirit of Sacrifice

A Spirit of Sacrifice
Title A Spirit of Sacrifice PDF eBook
Author Aaron Noble
Publisher SUNY Press
Pages 380
Release 2017-01-01
Genre History
ISBN 1438467788

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Focuses on the posters of World War I as a medium to interpret the tremendous role played by New York State and its citizens in the war effort.

The Disparity of Sacrifice

The Disparity of Sacrifice
Title The Disparity of Sacrifice PDF eBook
Author Timothy Bowman
Publisher
Pages 312
Release 2020-07
Genre History
ISBN 1789621852

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During the First World War approximately 200,000 Irish men and 5,000 Irish women served in the British armed forces. All were volunteers and a very high proportion were from Catholic and Nationalist communities. This book is the first comprehensive analysis of Irish recruitment between 1914 and 1918 for the island of Ireland as a whole. It makes extensive use of previously neglected internal British army recruiting returns held at The National Archives, Kew, along with other valuable archival and newspaper sources. There has been a tendency to discount the importance of political factors in Irish recruitment, but this book demonstrates that recruitment campaigns organised under the auspices of the Irish National Volunteers and Ulster Volunteer Force were the earliest and some of the most effective campaigns run throughout the war. The British government conspicuously failed to create an effective recruiting organisation or to mobilise civic society in Ireland. While the military mobilisation which occurred between 1914 and 1918 was the largest in Irish history, British officials persistently characterised it as inadequate, threatening to introduce conscription in 1918. This book also reflects on the disparity of sacrifice between North-East Ulster and the rest of Ireland, urban and rural Ireland, and Ireland and Great Britain.

Martyrdom and Sacrifice in Islam

Martyrdom and Sacrifice in Islam
Title Martyrdom and Sacrifice in Islam PDF eBook
Author Meir Hatina
Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing
Pages 378
Release 2016-11-14
Genre History
ISBN 178673026X

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Over the years, the belief system around self sacrifice has become key to understanding the Middle East and its political relationships with the West although much of the literature and conversation has been restricted to modern concepts of jihadism. The recent spate of scholarship relating to suicide bombers and jihadists studies these concepts without a broader understanding of the principle of martyrdom. This book expands on the chronology of self-sacrifice within Islam and contextualises the use of suicide bombings using details of the rise of martyrdom in places such as Iraq, Lebanon, Chechnya and Pakistan. It historicises the background in which 'jihad' has been glorified while also exploring contemporary methods of recruitment, like the use of the internet. The authors pay close attention to the different sects and factions of Islam and the differing interpretations of jihad that accompany these ideologies. In the current political climate, a book that explores martyrdom within the framework of historical perspectives, geographical regions and the influence of outside cultures is essential.

Sacrifice All for the Union

Sacrifice All for the Union
Title Sacrifice All for the Union PDF eBook
Author Philip Hatfield, PhD
Publisher 35th Star Publishing
Pages 479
Release 2020-12-21
Genre History
ISBN

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The story of Captain John Valley Young personifies the body of rugged Union Army volunteers from West Virginia during the Civil War: highly resilient, stubbornly independent, and fiercely patriotic. Using Captain Young’s wartime letters to his wife, Paulina Franklin Young, and his daughters, Sarah and Emily Young, along with his diary and numerous other original soldier accounts, this book reveals the experiences of a Union soldier and his family who were truly willing to “Sacrifice All for the Union.” Young, a farmer and Methodist-Episcopalian minister prior to the Civil War, during April 1861 raised a company of Union volunteers at the strongly pro-Southern village of Coalsmouth, Virginia, (modern St. Albans, West Virginia). He was adamantly opposed to slavery, yet often expressed a bitter ire at having to fight a violent civil war because his beloved nation had thus far failed to eradicate the awful practice. While he displayed an unshakeable desire to preserve the Union, Young’s convictions were severely tested as he and his family faced constant dangers from guerillas and Confederate raids in the Kanawha Valley. Captain Young also participated in more than one hundred skirmishes and eleven major engagements in the bloody Shenandoah Valley, and at Petersburg, and Appomattox; more than any other Union officer from West Virginia. He died from tuberculosis in 1867, a sad irony after surviving some of the bloodiest battles of the Civil War. “…Stand firm to the good old Cause. I have just come from Charleston, and found while there that there will be a change of Commanders in the Department of [West] Virginia. The authorities feel determined that we shall have protection. But if we cannot have better protection than we have had, the country is ruined. But I assure you there will be a change for the better. I don’t know how you will get up to see me now. Well, we must bear it the best we can. Sacrifice All for the Union.” - Captain John Valley Young, Letter to his wife, February 3, 1862