personal narratives

A memoir in which Captain Thomas Daly, part of the Marines' Rage Company, describes his experiences during the first six months of the surge in Iraq.

A Dutch Jewish girl describes the two-and-one-half years she spent in hiding in the upstairs bedroom of a farmer's house during World War II.

A teenage girl recounts the suffering and persecution of her family under the Nazis, in a Polish ghetto, during deportation, and in a concentration camp.

The chief diver of Pearl Harbor's salvage operations tells the story of the desperate attempts to save the ships and those trapped inside after the air raid in December, 1941.

Edith Hahn tells how she survived the Holocaust, first by going underground, using a Christian friend's identity papers, and eventually marrying Werner Vetter, a Nazi Party member who knew she was Jewish.

"September 1939, Nieppe, Northern France. 14-year-old Stephenis living with his family. Stephen and his friend Marcel collect souvenirs from strafed convoys and crashed Messerschmitts. They are arrested and imprisoned for sabotage and threatened with deportation or the firing squad. Upon his release, and still only 16, Stephen is recruited by the French Resistance. This is his story"--Provided by publisher.

The author, a former special ops Navy SEAL senior chief, master naval parachutist, and expert military dog trainer and handler, describes his final mission in Afghanistan that injured him, killed his dog, and ended his military career. Discusses his long road to physical and mental recovery in which he battled depression and alcoholism, and how the strength of family, friends, and canines saved him.

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

An anthology of twenty-three diaries written during the Holocaust by children, some of whom were later murdered by the Nazis.

Recounts the bewilderment of being a Jewish child in Hungary between 1939 and 1944, and relates the ordeal of survival in the ghetto.