personal narratives

"A memoir by the highest-ranking covert warrior to lift the veil of secrecy and offer a glimpse into the shadow wars that America has fought since the Vietnam Era. Enrique Prado found himself in his first firefight at age seven. The son of a middle-class Cuban family caught in the midst of the Castro Revolution, his family fled their war-torn home for the hope of a better life in America. Fifty years later, the Cuban refugee retired from the Central Intelligence Agency as the CIA equivalent of a two-star general. [This book] is the story of Ric's legendary career that spanned two eras, the Cold War and the Age of Terrorism"--Adapted from publisher description.

Glyn Haynie shares his Vietnam War experiences as a nineteen-year-old soldier in the First Platoon.

"Former Marine John Musgrave's searing and intimate memoir about surviving Vietnam and its aftermath"--Adapted from publisher description.

"[Relates] Austrian Jewish writer ... [Moriz Scheyer's] flight, persecution, and clandestine life in wartime France ... With the advent of the Nazis he was forced from both job and home. In 1943, in hiding in France, Scheyer began drafting what was to become this book. Tracing events from the Anschluss in Vienna, through life in Paris and unoccupied France, including a period in a French concentration camp, contact with the Resistance, and clandestine life in a convent caring for mentally disabled women, he gives an ... account of the events and experience of persecution"--Provided by publisher.

A thirteen-year-old Dutch-Jewish girl records her impressions of the two years she and seven others spent hiding from the Nazis before they were discovered and taken to concentration camps.

Contains letters, proclamations, songs, poetry, caricatures, and newspaper articles from the U.S.-Mexican War.

"The memoir of a young man from a long line of enlisted men and women, raised on military bases and shaped from a young age to idolize and glorify war and the people who fight it. After he joins the Marines and serves in Iraq, he must begin to reckon with the troubled and complicated truths of the American war machine"--Provided by publisher.

Presents excerpts from letters written by American servicemen and -women in World War II and background on the topics and themes covered, such as Pearl Harbor and long-distance love, and includes removable, miniature copies of several of the handwritten letters discussed.

Presents the personal narratives of Gustav Kleinmann and his son Fritz, two Holocaust survivors. The authors' primary source is Gustavs' concentration camp diary written between October 1939 and July 1945, and supplemented by a memoir written by Fritz in 1997 and interviews with surviving members of the family.

Presents excerpts from the Holocaust diaries of fifteen young people, ranging in age from twelve to twenty-two, each with an introductory essay that looks at the writer, and the historical context of the diary, with a study of the text and its relevance in the context of Holocaust history or literature. Includes a list of over fifty additional known diaries written by young people during the period.