Download or read book Twenty One Months a Captive written by Rachel Plummer and published by BIG BYTE BOOKS. This book was released on 101-01-01 with total page 124 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On May 19, 1836, Fort Parker in Texas was overwhelmed by a band of Comanche Indians. Some residents were brutally murdered, others taken prisoner. Among those captured was eleven year old Cynthia Parker, who would remain with the Comanche for 24 years and give birth to famed Chief Quanah. Another captive was 17-year-old Rachel Plummer, mother of one, pregnant with her second child. She would soon have her first-born ripped from her arms, never to be seen again, and later watched as her second-born was killed before her eyes. After twenty-one months of captivity that destroyed her health, she was purchased and returned to her family. In this extraordinary account, her father tells of that horrible day when the fort was attacked, and his desperate efforts to find and retrieve the captives. Rachel details her terrible enslavement and how she eventually fought back.
Download or read book 21 Months a Captive Rachel Plummer and the Fort Parker Massacre Annotated written by James W. Parker and published by . This book was released on 2016-11 with total page 99 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On May 19, 1836, Fort Parker in Texas was overwhelmed by a band of Comanche Indians. Some residents were brutally murdered, others taken prisoner.Among those captured was eleven year old Cynthia Parker, who would remain with the Comanche for 24 years and give birth to famed Chief Quanah.Another captive was 17-year-old Rachel Plummer, mother of one, pregnant with her second child. She would soon have her first-born ripped from her arms, never to be seen again, and later watched as her second-born was killed before her eyes.After twenty-one months of captivity that destroyed her health, she was purchased and returned to her family. In this extraordinary account, her father tells of that horrible day when the fort was attacked, and his desperate efforts to find and retrieve the captives. Rachel details her terrible enslavement and how she eventually fought back.
Download or read book Kidnapped written by Leszli Kalli and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2007-02-06 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "It all happened so fast that even now, a month later, I still have trouble believing it, and I have to tell myself over and over again: Leszli, you have been kidnapped." On April 12, 1999, Leszli Kálli boarded a plane in Colombia to work on a kibbutz in Israel, but she never made it. The plane was hijacked by a leftist guerrilla group and forced to land on an abandoned runway in the jungle. Leszli, along with her father and the other passengers, were held hostage for 373 days. Her diary reveals her innermost thoughts, darkest fears, and visions of hope. Leszli vividly presents this painful time in her life: trapped, held at gunpoint, and never knowing if she would live to see another day. Although never close before, the bond between her and her father grows as they provide one another with vital support. Alienated as the only woman in her group, she maintains her guard but finds comfort caring for animals, including a tarantula living beneath her bed. As the pages of her diary unfold, so, too, does the incredible story of one girl's fight for survival against overwhelming odds.
Download or read book Twenty Months in Captivity written by Bernhard Domschcke and published by . This book was released on 1987 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A German-educated officer in the Union army relates his experiences as a captive in Confederate prisons.
Download or read book Two Years in the Jungle written by William Temple Hornaday and published by . This book was released on 1885 with total page 642 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Ante Nicene Fathers Fathers of the second century Hermas Tatian Athenagoras Theophilus and Clement of Alexandria entire written by and published by . This book was released on 1885 with total page 658 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A Narrative of the Sufferings of James Bristow during ten years captivity with Hyder Ally and Tippoo Saheb written by James BRISTOW (Private in the Bengal Artillery.) and published by . This book was released on 1828 with total page 166 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Writings of Clement of Alexandria written by Saint Clement (of Alexandria) and published by . This book was released on 1884 with total page 498 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Voices from Captivity written by Robert C. Doyle and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 408 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Doyle shows that, though setting and circumstances may change, POW stories share a common structure and are driven by similar themes. Capture, incarceration, isolation, propaganda, torture, capitulation or resistance, death, spiritual quest, escape, liberation and repatriation are recurrent key motifs in these narratives.
Download or read book Country Life Illustrated written by and published by . This book was released on 1921 with total page 1376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A Spanish Prisoner in a German Camp written by Valentin Torras and published by . This book was released on 1917 with total page 165 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Babes in Captivity written by Pamela Redmond and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2010-05-11 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: They've satisfied their biological clocks. They met six years ago in a mom's group. Deirdre, Juliette, Anne, and Lisa are each living The Dream in the suburbs outside of New York City: beautiful wedding, big house, picture perfect family. What more could a woman want? Plenty, though none of them has ever admitted it. Out loud, anyway. It all starts with Deirdre....When she learns that her ex-lover, musician Nick Ruby, has moved back East, she confides in her girlfriends that she regrets her lost singing career, and her lost love affair with Nick. And since there doesn't seem to be a "what's next" in her life, she's more than a little curious about "what if...?" So what's that ticking sound? Deirdre's confession -- and her plan to revive her dreams and make them reality -- has a startling ripple effect. It turns out none of the four is as happy as she seems: Anne fears her marriage is in jeopardy. Juliette desperately wants to have another baby but can't. And Lisa's facing decisions that her life -- literally -- depends on. The doors swing wide when these babes start breaking out...but at what price? There's no satisfaction guarantee for any one of them, but taking chances together sure beats going it alone.
Download or read book The Last Girl written by Nadia Murad and published by Crown. This book was released on 2017-11-07 with total page 329 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: WINNER OF THE NOBEL PEACE PRIZE • In this “courageous” (The Washington Post) memoir of survival, a former captive of the Islamic State tells her harrowing and ultimately inspiring story. Nadia Murad was born and raised in Kocho, a small village of farmers and shepherds in northern Iraq. A member of the Yazidi community, she and her brothers and sisters lived a quiet life. Nadia had dreams of becoming a history teacher or opening her own beauty salon. On August 15th, 2014, when Nadia was just twenty-one years old, this life ended. Islamic State militants massacred the people of her village, executing men who refused to convert to Islam and women too old to become sex slaves. Six of Nadia’s brothers were killed, and her mother soon after, their bodies swept into mass graves. Nadia was taken to Mosul and forced, along with thousands of other Yazidi girls, into the ISIS slave trade. Nadia would be held captive by several militants and repeatedly raped and beaten. Finally, she managed a narrow escape through the streets of Mosul, finding shelter in the home of a Sunni Muslim family whose eldest son risked his life to smuggle her to safety. Today, Nadia's story—as a witness to the Islamic State's brutality, a survivor of rape, a refugee, a Yazidi—has forced the world to pay attention to an ongoing genocide. It is a call to action, a testament to the human will to survive, and a love letter to a lost country, a fragile community, and a family torn apart by war.
Download or read book The 151st Pennsylvania Volunteers at Gettysburg written by Michael A. Dreese and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2009-09-04 with total page 201 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: While the Battle of Gettysburg is often remembered for Chamberlain's dramatic defense of Little Round Top, Pickett and Pettigrew's tragic charge, and the stand of the "Iron Brigade," less-remembered units like the 151st Pennsylvania were also crucial in the Civil War's most famous battle. The 151st lost over 72 percent of its men to death, wounds, or capture, the second-highest-percentage loss of all Federal units at the battle. This is the account of that courageous unit and its role in this decisive moment in American history.
Download or read book Why Are These Books in the Bible and Not Others Volume One A Translator s Perspective on the Canon of the Old Testament written by Gary F. Zeolla and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2016 with total page 412 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This Volume One of a three volume set will study the books included in the Old Testament (OT) and consider other books that could have been included in it but were not. Each of the 39 books in the OT will be reviewed in detail, and it will be explained why they were included in the OT. Then the debate about the "extra" books found in Roman Catholic and Eastern Orthodox Bibles as compared to Protestant and Jewish Bibles will be addressed. Lastly, other books that some wonder why they are not included in the OT will be discussed. It will be explained why these books were rejected.
Download or read book Guerrilla Hostage written by Denise Marie Siino and published by Fleming H. Revell Company. This book was released on 1999 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ray Rising was a missionary working with an organization which translates the Bible into indigenous languages. He was captured by guerrillas and held prisoner for over two years. He continued to convey his Christian message to his captors. He is very candid about his struggles with boredom, loneliness and frustration as he was held in crude shelters in the dense jungles, yet the book, co-written by a journalist, never drags.
Download or read book Country Life written by and published by . This book was released on 1921 with total page 820 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
