personal narratives

Chronicles the events which took place on July 4, 1863, and discusses how the end of two battles, Vicksburg and Gettysburg, changed the course of the Civil War.

Lucie Aubrac's account of her participation in the French Resistance during World War II.

Elie Wiesel recounts his life story, telling of his childhood in the Carpathian mountains, his imprisonment at Auschwitz and Buchenwald, and his career as a journalist.

Presents the original firsthand narratives of some of history's greatest explorers, including David Livingstone, Ernest Shackleton, Meriwether Lewis, and others.

Experience the war through the real-life accounts of kids who survived the war in Europe, the Pacific, and on the home front.

A series of eyewitness accounts of the 1876 Battle of Little Bighorn and the defeat of General Custer as told by Native American participants in the battle.

Collects the optimistic letters of Philip "Flip" Slier, a Dutch Jew who was sent to a labor camp in April of 1942 and killed in the Holocaust, with documents, photographs, posters, and information gathered from interviews and eye-witness accounts. Includes bibliographical references and an illustrated index.

Presents a true story about a young girl's refusal to render the Nazi salute in pre-World War II Germany and how she learned very quickly to understand the power of the choices people have to make.

Helen Fremont chronicles her struggle to discover her parents' true religious history and discusses how she felt when she realized that her parents had lied about their Catholic upbringing because of their experiences during the Holocaust.