personal narratives

Tells the story of nearly one thousand young, unmarried Jewish women who boarded a train in Poprad, Slovakia, on March 25, 1942, believing they were going to work in a factory for a few months, but instead were sent to Auschwitz, becoming the first official Jewish transport to the Nazi concentration camp. Of those 999 innocent deportees sent to be used for slave labor, only a few would survive.

"Ferenc Andai is one of approximately 6,000 Jewish Hungarian men conscripted to work as forced labourers in the copper mines of Bor, Serbia, between 1943 and 1944. Subject to the whims of cruel Hungarian commanders and German overseers, the men are forced to work to exhaustion while they subsist on a starvation diet. For nineteen-year-old Ferenc, the only relief from his harsh reality is his company--an artistic and literary circle of men that includes the poet Mikl?os Radn?oti."--.

"In the midst of running a long-shot political campaign, Democratic political consultant John Simon discovers a 100-year-old manuscript written by his grandfather Joseph--- a brilliant young revolutionary whose exile to Siberia by the last czar of Russia is just the beginning of an extraordinary tale of survival, romance, and revolution. .... chronicles not only the Simon family's relationship to each other and the past, but also the remarkable story of a young man who sacrificed everything for his political ideals"--Jacket flap.

Presents the untold story of the young Jewish women who became resistance fighters against the Nazis during World War II.

A collection of personal narrative about World War II, as told to children from around the world.

Deanna Germain recounts the experiences she had while serving as a nursing supervisor treating Iraqi prisoners in need of medical attention at Abu Ghraib.

Presents a true account of the author's experiences as a Jewish boy in a Nazi concentration camp.

"[Kao Kalia Yang presents a] memoir of her family's harrowing escape from war in Laos ... a troubling portrait of the consequences of U.S. interventions in Southeast Asia; and a firsthand account of the little-seen exodus of the Hmong people, first to refugee camps in Thailand and then, for many, to new homes in Minnesota"--Back cover.

"In March 1943, twenty-seven children began third grade in a strange new environment: the Topaz Relocation Center in Utah. Together with their teacher, Miss Yamauchi, these uprooted young Americans began keeping a classroom diary, with a different child illustrating each day's entry. Their full-color diary entries paint a vivid picture of daily life in an internment camp: schoolwork, sports, pets, holidays, health--and the mixed feelings of citizens who were loyal but distrusted"--Provided by publisher.

These are the combat experiences of the first Marine to command a special operations task force, recounted against a backdrop of his journey from raw Second Lieutenant to seasoned Colonel and Task Force Commander; from leading Marines through the streets of Mogadishu, Baghdad, Fallujah and Mosul to directing multi-national special operations forces in a dauntingly complex fight against a formidable foe. The journey culminates in the story's centerpiece: the fight against ISIS, in which the author is able to use the lessons of his harsh apprenticeship to lead the SOF task force under his command to hasten the Caliphate's eventual demise. Milburn has an unusual background for a US Marine, and this is no ordinary war memoir. Very few personal accounts of war cover such a wide breadth of experience, or with so discerning a perspective. As Bing West comments: "His exceptional skill is telling each story of battle and then knitting them into a coherent whole. By the end of the book, the reader understands what happened on the ground in the wars against terrorists over the past twenty years." Milburn tells his extraordinary story with self-effacing candor, describing openly his personal struggles with the isolation of command, post-combat trauma and family tragedy. And with the skill and insight of a natural story teller, he makes the reader experience what it's like to lead those who fight America's wars.