diaries

Lucie Aubrac's account of her participation in the French Resistance during World War II.

The author's account of living alone in the Schwatka Mountains of northwest Alaska for 266 days.

Presents the two-year diary of Ida B. Wells, an African-American woman who would later become a crusader in the fight against lynching, providing a personal account of her social and political coming-of-age in Memphis in 1885-86.

Presents the diaries of Victor Klemperer in which he recorded the details of his life as a Jew in Hitler's Germany between 1941 and 1945, providing an account of the escalation of Nazi tyranny, some of which he was spared due to his marriage to a full-blooded Aryan.

Presents the story of Mosby's Rangers, the Civil War's best known band of partisans.

The journal of a New Jerseyan who went South at the beginning of the Civil War and worked four years in the Confederate States War Department.

The author recounts his three and a half years as a prisoner of the Japanese during World War II.