personal narratives, american

A reprint of the 1943 book in which news correspondent Richard Tregaskis provides an eyewitness account of the World War II battles on Guadalcanal in the fall of 1942.

A 1947 memoir in which American General George S. Patton, Jr., recounts his experiences of battle, and shares excerpts from his diaries, in which he recorded details of the U.S. armed forces campaign across Western Europe during World War II.

Presents a collection of last letters and photographs from American soldiers who lost their lives on the field of battle in Iraq.

Relates the story of Colonel Samuel Johnson's seven years as a prisoner of war in Vietnam.

Documentary filmmaker Michael Moore shares letters he received from American soldiers and veterans of the war in Iraq, and members of their families, in response to his anti-Bush film "Fahrenheit 9/11.".

The author's memoir of his tour of duty in Vietnam as a helicopter pilot beginning in 1965.

The author recounts the years he spent in Europe during World War II as a radio correspondent for NBC.