personal narratives

Traces the Vietnam War's path through both the United States and Vietnam from its inception as a conflict, escalating to a war, and then to the chaotic fall of Saigon in 1975. Ultimately the Vietnam War took the lives of three million people and this book explores what the war meant to all those involved, from generals, enlisted men, and policy makers to protesters, CIA operatives, journalists and doctors.

After the grief of losing her mother to cancer as a teenager, Sarah Gabriel had learned to appreciate "the charms of simple happiness." With a career as a journalist, a home in Oxford, England, a husband, and two young daughters, she was content. But then at age forty-four, she was diagnosed with breast cancer---the result of M18T, an inherited mutation on the BRCA1 gene that had taken the lives of her mother and countless female ancestors. Eating Pomegranates is Gabriel's candid and incredibly intimate story of being forced to acknowledge that while you can try to overcome the loss of a parent, you can never escape your genetic legacy. When she was diagnosed with the same disease that killed her mother, Gabriel began her treatments and wrote her story.

Krystyna Chiger survived the Holocaust by hiding with her family in the sewers of Lvov, Poland for fourteen months. Now a retired dentist, she lives on Long Island.

A collection of firsthand accounts that chronicle the experiences of men and women who experienced the horrors and violence of World War I.

A collection of firsthand accounts that describe the 1943 United States military campaign to retake Attu Island from Japanese troops that had invaded the island in 1942.

James Brady chronicles the experiences he had when he returned to North Korea nearly fifty years after he fought there as a young lieutenant of Marines, describing the painful memories his travels brought back and the healing that came with it.

Describes the experiences of the men assigned to infantry rifle platoons during World War II.

Karolina Lanckoronska recounts her experiences teaching art history to her fellow prisoners at the notorious Ravensbr?ck concentration camp during World War II.