personal narratives

Explores the reasons behind the Ukrainian famine of the early 1930s, looking at the impact of Stalin's forced collectivization and seizure of food, which resulted in the starvation of nearly seven million people.

A memoir in which the author, the son of a county political official, recalls his middle-school years in China, discussing the impact of the Cultural Revolution and the Red Guard movement on young minds, and considering the conflict it caused between him and his father.

Uses letters and diaries to profile various men and women of the Civil War who demonstrated bravery in life and death situations.

Recounts the common soldier's stories from the Confederate, Stonewall Brigade, and the Union, Iron Brigade.

A memoir of Emmanuel Jal's upbringing during the civil war in Sudan in the 1980s and conscription into the Christian Sudanese Liberation army as a child soldier, and covers his rescue and adoption by a British aid worker and success as a hip-hop recording artist and documentary film subject.

Draws on letters and diary entries written by both Union and Confederate soldiers pays tribute to their extraordinary courage.

Presents a day-by-day account of the Civil War years through the recollections of soldiers, journalists, politicians, farmers, nurses, and slaves.

An account of the Civil War as seen through the domestic experiences of Southern women, looking at what was happening in homes, hospitals, churches, and prisons, and including scenes from the battlefields and on shipboard.

Presents the story of the Kalman family who traveled from Hungary to Austria during the Hungarian revolution in 1956, also provides a history of Hungary from 1848 to 1956, and a look at life under Communist rule.