personal narratives

Buzz Williams chronicles the experiences he had while serving in the Marines, discussing how his life was turned upside down when he was called up from the reserves to fight in the front lines.

Contains three works of Holocaust literature, including "Night," an account of the author's experiences as a boy at Auschwitz; "Dawn," a short novel about a young Palestinian terrorist who spends the night waiting to execute a British prisoner; and "The Accident," the story of a Holocaust survivor who must choose whether to live or die after being hit by a car.

Contains letters written by servicemen and -women from twenty Allied and Axis countries during World War II, presented with introductions and arranged by topic, covering battles, religious support, leadership, life in the military, impressions of new lands, prisoner of war camps, injuries and caretakers, and the war's end.

Dr. Frankl recounts details of his experiences in a Nazi death camp and tells how they led to his development of the theory of logotherapy which contends that man has the freedom to transcend suffering and find meaning in his life regardless of his circumstances.

A collection of photographs and personal testimonies which help chronicle the turbulent recent history of Kosovo through the eyes of its ordinary people.

The author, prisoner number 69084 in the Plaszow concentration camp, provides his personal account of the Holocaust, discussing his daily struggle to survive, his secret marriage in the camp, and his time as a worker for Oskar Schindler. Includes poems, anecdotes, and illustrations.

Henry Friedman chronicles the experiences he and his family had while hiding from the Nazis in a neighbor's hayloft during World War II.

An account of the escape of almost one hundred British prisoners of war from a German prison camp in 1944.

Describes the experiences of twenty African-American soldiers during the Vietnam War.

On February 14, 1989, Salman Rushdie received a call from a journalist informing him that he had been "sentenced to death" by the Ayatollah Khomeini. It was the first time Rushdie heard the word fatwa. His crime? Writing a novel, The Satanic Verses, which was accused of being "against Islam, the Prophet, and the Quran." So begins the extraordinary story of how a writer was forced underground for more than nine years, moving from house to house, with the constant presence of an armed police protection team. Asked to choose an alias that the police could use, he thought of combinations of the names of writers he loved: Conrad and Chekhov: Joseph Anton. How do a writer and his family live with the threat of murder for over nine years? What happened to Salman Rushdie was the first act of a drama that is still unfolding.--From publisher description.