personal narratives

Through text, photographs, and illustrations, Tomi Ungerer chronicles the experiences he had while he was growing up in a German-occupied town in France during World War II.

Anecdotes, photographs, newspaper clippings, restaurant menus, and recipes relate the experiences of people who lived through the Great Depression.

Eleven survivors of the Holocaust in Hungary recollect their childhood experiences during the implementation of Hitler's Final Solution. Includes photographs of the narrators.

The author describes her experiences in Nazi concentration camps after she and her family were sent to Auschwitz when she was thirteen years old.

The author describes his childhood experiences during the massacres of the Armenians by the Turks during the First World War.

Twelve at the outbreak of World War II, the author recounts her struggle to survive in Auschwitz.

Chronicles the events of the battle at Little Bighorn River in 1876 from first-hand accounts of the Native Americans, soldiers, and scouts who witnessed it; along with a description of the archaeological evidence collected on the site.

Presents the memories of thirty-two American and Canadian men and women who served in the Korean War.

What it was like to be in Vietnam, told mostly in excerpts from letters by soldiers.

Presents memoirs of soldiers, nurses, chaplains, and civilians who witnessed at first-hand both the ravages--and the rare, unexpected flashes of human compassion and even humor--of World War I.