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The Battle of the Alamo is one of the most compelling stories from American history. Students of the battle often wonder why William B. Travis and his small garrison were left alone to meet their fate at the hands of General Santa Anna. Author Richard B. Winders, the historian and curator at the Alamo, examines events that led to this epic struggle and concludes that in-fighting among the revolutionary leadership doomed the Alamo garrison.

The Texan victories of 1835 created discord among rebel leaders as various factions strove to direct the revolution to meet their own specific goals. That bickering resulted in an almost total breakdown of Texan military forces as individual commands were swept into the political battle. The democratic fervor of the 1830s worked against building a cohesive Texan Army and was largely responsible for the twin tragedies of the Alamo and Goliad.

Informative and provocative, Sacrificed at the Alamo will appeal to general readers as well as students of the classic battle and its important place in Texas history..
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Sacrificed for Honor reveals a shocking and little-known system for the surveillance and control of unmarried mothers and their children that operated in Catholic Europe for nearly three centuries, ending just a century ago..
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What happens when a cargo of ten thousand tons of high-octane benzine explodes?

What happens when men jump into a sea that is ablaze?

What happens when sixty-foot waves and ninety-miles-an-hour winds batter ships in the middle of the North Atlantic?

What happens when a convoy of loaded tankers is sent, under-protected, across an ocean in which U-boat wolf packs are waiting for prey?

And what happens when submarines are driven under by warships, and attacked with depth charges?

These are some of the questions to which the authors provide answers in a book that is gripping, and bursting with character and incident as it lifts the lid on the Battle of the Atlantic.

It is a compelling account of the brutal reality of war, disturbing, fascinating, and full of human drama.

The work of two men with fair and open minds, it brings the Battle of the Atlantic vividly to life, told from both the Allie and the Axis sides.

And it tells the terrible story of Special Oil Convoy T.M. 1. which was destroyed by U-boats in 1943, and which may have been deliberately sacrificed..
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This book concerns the conceptual position of women in early India, specifically in the Vedic and early epic periods (c.1500-200 BCE), and it seeks to make contributions both to Indology and to gender studies. By focusing on a single female role--the activities of the "Sacrificer's Wife" in solemn ritual--and by extracting the rich materials on her role from the voluminous technical ritual manuals, the author isolates a set of conceptual functions the wife fills in ritual practice. These functions can then be observed in other cultural institutions in which women participate--particularly the system of hospitality and gift exchange that regulated the relations between mutually obligated strangers in ancient India and the system of marital exchange.
Besides filling a large gap in our understanding of ancient India, this work makes a general contribution to the study of women and gender, not merely by supplying information about a place and time poorly represented in these studies, but also by suggesting some methodologies involving sensitivity to language and linguistic analysis to employ in approaching women and gender in other ancient cultures..
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John Harris Behan, as author Bob Alexander so capably demonstrates, was a true frontiersman of the early Arizona Territory. Long portrayed as a villain in the Tombstone conflicts, and the nemesis of Wyatt Earp, "Sacrificed Sheriff" presents the story of a 40-year lawman and public servant who was skilled with gun and horse, yet who consistently fought crime and arrested bad guys without killing anyone. Behan also was a Civil War volunteer, twice a Territorial Legislator, and Yuma Prison Superintendent. At an age when some Western "heroes" were mouthing memoirs to journalists, Behan served in the Spanish American War and the Boxer Rebellion. This is the Western lawman that everyone has heard of but no one knows. With rigorous research, copious footnotes, and a lively style, Bob Alexander gives us Johnny Behan in the round..
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Youth and identity politics figure prominently in this provocative study of personal and collective memory in Madagascar. A deeply nuanced ethnography of historical consciousness, it challenges many cross-cultural investigations of youth, for its key actors are not adults but schoolchildren. Lesley Sharp refutes dominant assumptions that African children are the helpless victims of postcolonial crises, incapable of organized, sustained collective thought or action.
She insists instead on the political agency of Malagasy youth who, as they decipher their current predicament, offer potent, historicized critiques of colonial violence, nationalist resistance, foreign mass media, and schoolyard survival. Sharp asserts that autobiography and national history are inextricably linked and therefore must be read in tandem, a process that exposes how political consciousness is forged in the classroom, within the home, and on the street in Madagascar.
Keywords: Critical pedagogy.
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While our Government would have us believe otherwise, most Americans think there was a conspiracy surrounding the assassination of JFK. Shockingly, Truth Sacrificed reveals a forbidden alliance between the Mafia and rogue elements of the Government. Through the recent discovery of Sam Giancana's signed confession, the novel exposes intricate details that lead us to a new and unthinkable conclusion. The Government lied to us! With strong evidence that Sam and others involved confessed and sought reconciliation for the part they played in the conspiracy, for the first time ever the story is told from the viewpoint of the assassins. While some of the facts are challenged to be fiction and some of the fiction may indeed be fact, the tapestry of minutiae is woven together in a seamless tale of espionage and intrigue. Strong religious themes detail the battle between Good and Evil and the question of 'True or False' becomes a guessing game of uncertainty, much like the conspiracy itself..
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