personal narratives

In this riveting memoir, an ER doctor reveals how his high-stress career of helping others led to a struggle to save himself.

The jolting and inspiring survival tale of Jonathan Kathrein's encounter with a great white shark.

The author presents realistic day-to-day reports on his mission in Vietnam which included daily reports on enemy troop movements and commanding a small detachment of men.

The author, a U.S. Marine, recounts his disturbing experiences in the 1991 Gulf War and reflects upon the emotional damage he suffered and the nature of both the American military and war itself.

Ten women who survived the Theresienstadt internment camp near Prague before going to Auschwitz recount how they survived the horrors of the war.

Ronald E. Winter provides an account of his experiences as a Marine helicopter crewman and door gunner during the Vietnam War.

A thirty-fifth anniversary edition of the biography of Corrie Ten Boom, a leader of the Dutch underground who hid scores of Jews from the Nazi's during World War II.

Roma Ben-Atar recounts the experiences she had during the Holocaust, describing how she survived life in the concentration camps by talking to the soul of her mother, who died at the hands of the Nazis.

Katherine Skiba chronicles the experiences she had while working as an embedded journalist with the 159th Aviation Brigade in Iraq in 2003.

After struggling to survive in Nazi-occupied Lithuania, a young Jewish girl and her mother endure much suffering in Kaiserwald, Stutthof, and Tauentzien concentration camps and on an eleven-day death march before being liberated by the Russian army.