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Born in a small river town in the largely Muslim province of
Sandzak, Munevera Hadzisehovic grew up in an area sandwiched
between the Orthdox Christian regions of Montenegro and Serbia, cut
off from other Muslims in Bosnia and Harzegovina. Her story takes
her reader from the rural culture of the early 1930s through the
massacres of World War II and the repression of the early Communist
regime to the dissolution of Yugoslavia in the early 1990s. It
sheds light on the history of Yugoslavia from the interwar Kingdom
to the breakup of the socialist state. In poignant detail,
Hadzisehovic paints a picture not only of her own life but of the
lives of other Muslims, especially women, in an era and an area of
great change. Readers are given a loving yet accurate portrait of
Muslim customs pertaining to the household, gardens, food and
dating--in short, of everyday life. Hadzisehovic writes from the
inside out, starting with her emotions and experiences, then moving
outward to the facts that concern those interested in this region:
the role of the Ustashe, Chetniks, and Germans in World War II, the
attitude of Serbdominated Yugoslavia toward Muslims, and the tragic
state of ethnic relations that led to war again in the 1990s. Some
of Hadzisehovic's experiences and many of her views will be
controversial. She speaks of Muslim women's reluctance to give up
the veil, the disapproval of mixed marriages, and the problems
between Serb and Croat nationalists. Her benign view of Italian
occupation is in stark contrast to her depiction of bloodthirsty
Chetnik irregulars. Her analysis of Belgrade's Muslims suggests
that class differences were just as important as religious
affiliation. In this personal,yet universal story, Hazisehovic
mourns the loss of two worlds--the orderly Muslim world of her
childhood and the secular, multi-ethnic world of communist
Yugoslavia.
A telephone call to Senator J. William Fulbright's Washington D.C.
office affected a change of assignment for new Warrant Officer
Pilot Thomas Butler to Medical Evacuation School. He could not have
known how this 'favor' would effect his future and the decisions he
would make in combat. With only minor glimpses into the struggles
of an African American as a Warrant Officer Cadet during the late
1960's, we are catapulted into the jungles of Vietnam. Mr. Butler
presents a rare look into the lives of the men whose task it was to
retrieve the wounded from the battlefields and jungles of Vietnam.
He tells the story like none other has, very effectively including
the writings of a North Vietnamese officer, Captain Trang.
A telephone call to Senator J. William Fulbright's Washington D.C.
office affected a change of assignment for new Warrant Officer
Pilot Thomas Butler to Medical Evacuation School. He could not have
known how this 'favor' would effect his future and the decisions he
would make in combat. With only minor glimpses into the struggles
of an African American as a Warrant Officer Cadet during the late
1960's, we are catapulted into the jungles of Vietnam. Mr. Butler
presents a rare look into the lives of the men whose task it was to
retrieve the wounded from the battlefields and jungles of Vietnam.
He tells the story like none other has, very effectively including
the writings of a North Vietnamese officer, Captain Trang.
During the past decade, plague infections have persisted with
undiminished importance in foci of the Americas, Africa, and Asia,
while infections caused by the other yersiniae were recognized only
during this decade as important agents of diarrheal and
appendicitislike outbreaks in Europe, North America, and Japan. The
dramatic rise of plague was abetted by the military conflict in
Vietnam in the latter 1960s and persisted into the 1970s. During
these years more Vietnamese people probably died of plague than
American ser- vicemen died of combat injuries. In the United States
during these same years, the numbers of human cases of plague
increased severalfold owing to well- entrenched endemic foci in the
sylvatic rodent species of the southwestern states. , In the latter
1960s, microbiologists had changed the name of the plague bacillus
from Pasteurella pestis to Yersinia pestis. The other two
pathogenic species, Yersinia enterocolitica and Yersinia
pseudotuberculosis, were known causes of mesenteric lymphadenitis
and were believed to be rare. However, there originated a strong
interest in these diseases in the European countries of Sweden,
Finland, Belgium, and France. Yersiniae were frequently dis-
covered in persons with diarrhea and acute abdominal pain
simulating ap- pendicitis. This discovery sparked a worldwide surge
of scientific interest in the genus Yersinia. Previous writings
about the yersiniae have rarely considered plague and nonplague
yersiniae together. Diseases caused by these bacteria, although
their epidemiological patterns and clinical pictures are very
different, have some striking similarities.
Isaac Lewis was a much loved pastor of 'Providence' Strict Baptist
Chapel in Staplehurst, Kent for 21 years until his death in 1896.
This 'Memorial' was first published by Benjamin Wickens in November
1896 and was available in both paperback and hardback versions. It
contains an autobiography, originally published in the 'Christian's
Monthly Record' during Mr Lewis' lifetime, as well as poems,
funeral sermons, some of Mr Lewis' letters and other information.
Mr Lewis' autobiography has been reprinted in the 'Gospel Standard'
and elsewhere under the title "Through Many Dangers". This book has
been reprinted from a paperback original with a few notes added to
provide context or additional background information in some
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