Familiarity with martyr Hassan Tajuk in the book "The Honored"

Marzieh Nazarloo
Translated by: Fazel Shirzad

2019-1-22


Iranian oral history website - "The Honored" is the title of martyr Hassan Tajuk's documented biography written by Marzieh Nazrloo. This book, with 368 page, has been published by Searir publication in 2019.

In addition to the phrase "Documented Biography", which is mentioned on the cover page, the book format is also mentioned on the title page of "Narrative Documentary". In the publication information page of book, this line is also visible:

"Subject: Tajuk, Hassan, 1962-1989. Iran-Iraq War, 1981-1989, martyrs- memories."

The book begins with a photo that follows: "Martyred General Hassan Tajuk, commander of the plan and operation Ansar al-Hussein (AS)". Then, the names of 90 interviewees are mentioned and the book is written according to their statements. This is only source for this book.

The book "The Honored", after the introduction, has 12 chapters and ends with 35 pages of photo and image documents. In the introduction, the author reported: "This book is the result of 160 hours of interviews with friends, relatives and comrades of the martyr Hassan Tajuk, which has been written after reviewing and adjusting about 100 pages of documents. Most of hours of this interview were gathered by the effort of Mohammad Sadegh Tajuk (the martyr's son) and Morteza Nadermohammadi about the martyr and battalion of Muslim ibn Aqil, and a thousand pages of transcribed texts were ready to be written. "

One hundreds of pages are allocated to Hassan Tajuk's story from birth to the early days of imposed war of Saddam's army against the Islamic Republic of Iran. In this hundreds of events, the events of 1979   to 1982 in the city of Malayer and in the crowd of young people who were active in the victory of Islamic Revolution are highlighted. In a chapter, Hassan Tajuk's marriage adventures are also mentioned.

His life story on the sacred defense fronts is included in 230 pages. The reader travels to these areas with these pages, and get familiar with the role of Hassan Tajuk and the Malayer’s worries in the fronts. According author of the book in introduction: "The Honored" is a biography of a man who withstood, as a man, the days of the struggle and victory of revolution. In the ups and downs of war, he did not leave the battle, and because he could not bear the absence of his martyred comrades; therefore, he finally got along with his comrades and martyred on July 1989"



 
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