personal narratives

Greg Manning offers a day-to-day account, in the form of emails to friends and family, of his wife's recovery after she was burned over more than eighty percent of her body from the terrorist attacks on September 11, 2001.

Tells of two sisters who survived the inhumane conditions of the Third Reich's concentration camps during World War II.

Recreates the Holocaust through the eyes of a small child experiencing the discrimination that sends his family to Bergen-Belsen Concentration camp.

A variety of people who lived through the Great Depression describe their memories of that time.

Recounts the true story of Michael Durant's experiences in Somalia after his U.S. Army Special Operations Blackhawk was shot down in October, 1993.

Discusses the history and battles of World War II.

A mixture of prose, diary entries, and poetry relating the author's experiences in the concentration camp Theresienstadt.

To protect her from the Nazis, the mother of a Jewish French girl sends the child to a Catholic convent school.

Presents a personal account of the author's experiences as a young Jewish girl living in Poland at the beginning of its occupation by Nazi Germany in World War II.

Seiichi Higashide recounts the experiences he had in a United States concentration camp during World War II, and discusses how the experience has shaped every aspect of his life since then.