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THE SHADOW OF SACRIFICE
On March 18, 1942, barely one hundred days after Japan’s devastating “surprise attack” on the United States Navy’s Pacific Fleet based at Pearl Harbor, a group of American soldiers were guarding a beach on the north shore of the Hawaiian island of Oahu against an expected Japanese amphibious invasion. The atmosphere was tense. Suddenly, a gunshot shattered the almost perfect silence of that tropical night. In its aftermath, one young American soldier lay dead not far from the beach he was guarding. But who was he? And what were the circumstances which had led to his tragic death? The Shadow of Sacrifice answers these questions and, in the process, tells the compelling and poignant st...
Old World Colony
An exploration of the long-term development of an Irish region, South Munster, from the eve of the 1641 rising to the era of Catholic Emancipation from one of Ireland's best known scholars of the period. The study examines both social and economic development and cultural and political change in the region across six generations.
