personal narratives

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Behind the secret window

a memoir of a hidden childhood during World War Two
2003
The author recalls her experiences when she and her mother were hidden from the Nazis by a Gentile couple in Lw?w, Poland, during World War II.

To hell and back

2002
A republication of the classic World War II memoir, originally published in 1949, in which Audie Murphy recounts his experiences fighting with the infantry in Europe, emerging as America's most decorated soldier.

Edith's story

1998
Dutch Jew Edith Velmans recounts her experiences during World War II, focusing on the time she spent in hiding with a Dutch family.

Clara's story

1984
The author describes her own and her family's experiences during the two and one-half years they spent in hiding in Antwerp, Belgium, during World War II.

My childhood under fire

a Sarajevo diary
2006
The true story of twelve-year-old Nadja Halilbegovich as she relates how she and her family survived the constant bombings, attacks, and lack of basic supplies during the siege of Sarajevo in the late 1990s.

The Vietnam War

2004
Describes the Vietnam Conflict through the letters of the people who fought it, including war supporters and objectors, African Americans and Hispanics, pilots, soldiers, and combat nurses.

World War II

2004
Describes the second World War through the letters of the people who fought it, serving in all branches of the military, throughout the Pacific, northern Africa, and Europe.

The endless steppe

growing up in Siberia
1987
During World War II, when she was eleven years old, the author and her family were arrested in Poland by the Russians as political enemies and exiled to Siberia. She recounts here the trials of the following five years spent on the harsh Asian steppe.

Tomi

a childhood under the Nazis
1998
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.

We had everything but money

love and sharing saw America's families through the Great Depression-- these are the memories of those who lived through it
1992
Anecdotes, photographs, newspaper clippings, restaurant menus, and recipes relate the experiences of people who lived through the Great Depression.

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