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Captured on Corregidor

diary of an American P.O.W. in World War II
1988
The author recounts his three and a half years as a prisoner of the Japanese during World War II.

The fifties

from notebooks and diaries of the period
1986

John Adams, the writer

a treasury of letters, diaries, and public documents
2007
A collection of illustrated photographs, prints, paintings, and artifacts, as well as selected writings that chart the life and ideas of John Adams from his years as a schoolteacher and lawyer to diplomat and president.

As if it were life

a WWII diary from the Theresienstadt ghetto
2009
Theresienstadt became the "showpiece" ghetto of the Third Reich so the world would think that the Nazis were treating the Jews humanely. It was controlled by the SS but run by a council of Jewish elders and presented to the Red Cross as an idyllic utopia. In reality it was a holding post for Jews being shipped to Treblinka and Auschwitz. Philipp Manes was a middle-class Berlin merchant who considered himself a German first, and then a Jew. He wrote his firsthand account of his life in Theresienstadt before his deportation to Auschwitz where he and his wife were killed.

White House diary

2010
Each day during his presidency, Jimmy Carter, the thirty-ninth president of the United States, made several entries in a private diary and recorded his thoughts, impressions, delights, and frustrations. When his four-year term ended in 1981, the diary had more than five thousand pages. It has never been made public until now.

The Journals of Lewis and Clark

2002
In 1804, Meriwether Lewis and William Clark, at the request of President Jefferson and Congress, set out on an unprecedented two-year journey up the Missouri River and across the Rocky Mountains to the Pacific Ocean. The purpose was see how far it really was to the Pacific and also to map natural resources with a view towards expanding the United states. The nation did not expect them to return and when they did, the information they brought back helped persuade Congress that expansion was not only necessary, it was mandatory. Their journals present a portrait of the unspoiled American West as only members of the Corps of Discovery (as their expedition was called) saw it. This landmark edition corrects spelling and grammar, retaining essential text and making the journals easy to read.

Miss American pie

a diary of love, secrets, and growing up in the 1970s
2007
Gives an account of the author's life from age twelve to eighteen, crafted from diaries, notebooks, and letters, and reflects all the joys and sorrows of growing up in the 1970s.

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