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- "The good war" : an oral history of World War Two
- "The good war" : an oral history of World War Two
- 12 strong : the declassified true story of the horse soldiers
- 1917 : revolution in Russia and its aftermath
- 1944 diary
- 24 hours inside the President's bunker : 9-11-01, the White House
- 8 seconds of courage : a soldier's story, from immigrant to the Medal of Honor
- 82 days on Okinawa : one American's unforgettable firsthand account of the Pacific War's greatest battle
- 82 days on Okinawa : one American's unforgettable firsthand account of the Pacific war's greatest battle
- 999 : the extraordinary young women of the first official transport to Auschwitz
- A Civil War captain and his lady : love, courtship, and combat from Fort Donelson through the Vicksburg Campaign
- A Lublin survivor : life is like a dream
- A South Carolina upcountry saga : the Civil War letters of Barham Bobo Foster and his family, 1860-1863
- A Southern woman's story
- A Vietcong memoir
- A belle of the fifties : memoirs of Mrs. Clay of Alabama, covering social and political life in Washington and the South, 1853-66
- A black soldier's story : the narrative of Ricardo Batrell and the Cuban War of Independence
- A bookshop in Berlin : the rediscovered memoir of one woman's harrowing escape from the Nazis
- A bookshop in Berlin : the rediscovered memoir of one woman's harrowing escape from the Nazis
- A boy lieutenant : memoirs of Freeman S. Bowley, 30th United States Colored Troops officer
- A company of heroes
- A decade of hope : stories of grief and endurance from 9/11 families and friends
- A history of silence : a memoir
- A long way gone : [memoirs of a boy soldier]
- A long way gone : memoirs of a boy soldier
- A lucky child : a memoir of surviving Auschwitz as a young boy
- A lucky child : a memoir of surviving Auschwitz as a young boy
- A people's history of the American Revolution : how common people shaped the fight for independence
- A people's history of the American Revolution : how common people shaped the fight for independence
- A place outside the law : forgotten voices from Guantánamo
- A small town near Auschwitz : ordinary Nazis and the Holocaust
- A soldier's sketchbook : the illustrated First World War diary of R.H. Rabjohn
- A tiger among us : a story of valor in Vietnam's A Shau Valley
- A time to fight : living and remembering WWII
- A war away : an American woman in Vietnam, 1967-1974
- A widow's walk
- A woman in Berlin : eight weeks in the conquered city : a diary
- A-train : memoirs of a Tuskegee Airman
- ALL THE GALLANT MEN : AN AMERICAN SAILOR'S FIRSTHAND ACCOUNT OF PEARL HARBOR
- ARMENIAN GOLGOTHA : A MEMOIR OF THE ARMENIAN GENOCIDE, 1915-1918
- Adios to tears : the memoirs of a Japanese-Peruvian internee in U.S. concentration camps
- African American voices from Iwo Jima : personal accounts of the battle
- After the Holocaust the bells still ring
- Afterwords : stories and reports from 9/11 and beyond
- Air Apaches : the true story of the 345th Bomb Group and its low, fast, and deadly missions in World War II
- All of which I saw : with the US Marine Corps in Iraq
- All the gallant men : an American sailor's firsthand account of Pearl Harbor
- Ambush Valley : I Corps, Vietnam 1967 : the story of a Marine infantry battalion's battle for survival
- American radical : inside the world of an undercover Muslim FBI agent
- American spirit : profiles in resilience, courage, and faith
- American spirit : profiles in resilience, courage, and faith
- An American town and the Vietnam War : stories of service from Stamford, Connecticut
- An Army doctor's American Revolution journal, 1775-1783
- An album of memories : personal histories from the greatest generation
- An eagle's odyssey : my decade as a pilot in Hitler’s Luftwaffe
- An interrupted life : the diaries, 1941-1943 ; and, Letters from Westerbork
- An iron wind : Europe under Hitler
- An ordinary day : kids with rare genetic conditions
- And still peace did not come : a memoir of reconciliation
- Anne Frank and children of the Holocaust
- Armenian Golgotha
- Arnhem 1944 : the human tragedy of the bridge too far
- Ask a North Korean : defectors talk about their lives inside the world's most secretive nation
- Asylum: : a survivor's flight from Nazi-occupied Vienna through wartime France
- At Lincoln's side : John Hay's Civil War correspondence and selected writings
- Autobiography of Samuel S. Hildebrand : the renowned Missouri bushwhacker
- BORN SURVIVORS : THREE YOUNG MOTHERS AND THEIR EXTRAORDINARY STORY OF COURAGE, DEFIANCE, AND HOPE
- Battlefield diaries
- Battles and leaders of the Civil War : being for the most part contributions by Union and Confederate officers
- Behind enemy lines : the true story of a French Jewish spy in Nazi Germany
- Ben's story : Holocaust letters with selections from the Dutch underground press
- Bend, not break : a life in two worlds
- Bending toward the sun : a mother and daughter memoir
- Between two streams : a diary from Bergen-Belsen
- Beyond the call : three women on the front lines in Afghanistan
- Biafra's War, 1967-1970 : a Tribal Conflict in Nigeria That Left a Million Dead
- Big friendship : how we keep each other close
- Blind ambition : the White House years
- Blind descent : [the quest to discover the deepest place on Earth]
- Blood Papa : Rwanda's new generation
- Blood and germs : the Civil War battle against wounds and disease
- Blood on the snow : eyewitness accounts of the Russian revolution
- Bloods, an oral history of the Vietnam War
- Blue-blooded cavalryman : Captain William Brooke Rawle in the Army of the Potomac, May 1863-August 1865
- Born on the Fourth of July
- Bounty hunter 4/3 : my life in combat from Marine Scout Sniper to MARSOC
- Boy 30529 : a memoir
- Brain storms : the race to unlock the mysteries of Parkinson's Disease
- Broken silence
- Brooklyn to Baghdad : an NYPD intelligence cop fights terror in Iraq
- Brothers in war
- Bullets and opium : real-life stories of China after the Tiananmen Square Massacre
- By the sword : a young man meets war
- Cameras, combat and courage : the Vietnam War by the military's own photographers
- Captured : an American prisoner of war in North Vietnam
- Casket of reminiscences
- Caught in the revolution : Petrograd, Russia, 1917-- a world on the edge
- Caught in the revolution : witness to the fall of Imperial Russia
- Censored voices
- Charlie Company journeys home : the forgotten impact on the wives of Vietnam veterans
- Che : the diaries of Ernesto Che Guevara
- Chester Nez and the unbreakable code : a Navajo code talker's story
- Chickenhawk
- Chief counsel : inside the Ervin Committee--the untold story of Watergate
- Child prisoner in American concentration camps
- Christmas soul : African American holiday stories
- Circling the Square : stories from the Egyptian Revolution
- Clara's war : one girl's story of survival
- Classic stories of World War II
- Coffin corner boys : one bomber, ten men, and their harrowing escape from Nazi-occupied France
- Confessions Of A Don't Ask, Don't Tell Soldier : How A Black, Gay Man Survived The Infantry, Coming Out, And The War in Iraq
- Consequence : a memoir
- Convicted : a crooked cop, an innocent man, and an unlikely journey of forgiveness and friendship
- Counting backwards : a doctor's notes on anesthesia
- Counting backwards : a doctor's notes on anesthesia
- Counting the Days : POWs, Internees, and Stragglers of World War II in the Pacific
- Country of ash : a Jewish doctor in Poland, 1939-1945
- Courage without glory : the British Army on the Western Front 1915
- Craig & Fred : a marine, a stray dog, and how they rescued each other
- Crisis on the border : an eyewitness account of illegal aliens, violent crime, and cartels
- Cry havoc : Charlottesville and American democracy under siege
- Culture warlords : my journey into the dark web of white supremacy
- D-Day : the price of freedom
- D-day : minute by minute
- DIARY OF WILLIAM BIRCHER : A CIVIL WAR DRUMMER
- Danger close : my epic journey as a combat helicopter pilot in Iraq and Afghanistan
- Days of lead : defying death during Israel's War of Independence
- Dear world : a Syrian girl's story of war and plea for peace
- Dear world : a Syrian girl's story of war and plea for peace
- Death march escape : the remarkable story of a man who twice escaped the Nazi Holocaust
- Descent into darkness : Pearl Harbor, 1941: a Navy diver's memoir
- Desert exile : the uprooting of a Japanese American family
- Devil sent the rain : music and writing in desperate America
- Diaries of an unfinished revolution : voices from Tunis to Damascus
- Diario de Ana Frank
- Diary of Carrie Berry : a Confederate girl
- Diary of Charles B. Fisher
- Diary of Sally Wister : a colonial Quaker girl
- Diary of a contraband : the Civil War passage of a Black sailor
- Did you kill anyone? : reunderstanding my military experience as a critique of modern culture
- Dispatches
- Divided hearts, a civil war friendship quilt : historical narratives, 12 blocks, instruction & inspirations
- Do no harm : stories of life, death, and brain surgery
- Don't hurry me down to Hades : the Civil War in the words of those who lived through it
- Don't let my past be your future
- Drawing D-Day : an artist's journey through war
- Dunkirk : the history behind the major motion picture
- Dunkirk : the history behind the major motion picture
- Duty : memoirs of a secretary at war
- Eat the apple : a memoir
- Elle & Coach : diabetes, the fight for my daughter's life, and the dog who changed everything
- Elly : my true story of the Holocaust
- Enduring Vietnam : an American generation and its war
- Escape : children of the Holocaust
- Every man a hero : a memoir of D-Day, the first wave at Omaha Beach, and a world at war
- Every man a hero : a memoir of D-Day, the first wave at Omaha Beach, and a world at war
- Exile : portraits of the Jewish diaspora
- Extreme ownership : how U.S. Navy SEALs lead and win
- Extreme ownership : how U.S. Navy SEALs lead and win
- Eye of the storm : a Civil War odyssey
- Eyes on the Prize : America's Civil Rights Years
- Eyewitness Auschwitz : three years in the gas chambers
- Eyewitness to the Civil War : the complete history from secession to Reconstruction
- Fallujah redux : the Anbar Awakening and the struggle with al-Qaeda
- Fields of fury : the American Civil War
- Fifty years of slavery in the United States of America
- First in : an insider's account of how the CIA spearheaded the war on terror in Afghanistan
- First words : a childood in Fascist Italy
- Five four whiskey : a memory of war
- Flory : a miraculous story of survival
- Fly like a girl : one woman's dramatic fight in Afghanistan and on the home front
- For Sama
- Forged from chaos : stories and reflections from Liberia at war
- Fractured lands
- Fragments of Isabella : a memoir of Auschwitz
- Freedom riders
- Freedom's journey : African American voices of the Civil War
- From Kristallnacht to Watergate : memoirs of a newspaperman
- From Omaha Beach to Nuremberg : a memoir of World War II combat and the International Military Tribunal
- From broken glass : my story of finding hope in Hitler's death camps to inspire a new generation
- From red earth : a Rwandan story of healing and forgiveness
- GI Jews : Jewish Americans in World War II
- Geronimo and the Apache resistance
- Go ask Alice
- God is not here : a soldier's struggle with torture, trauma, and the moral injuries of war
- Good-Bye to All That
- Goodbye to all that
- Greenlights
- Guests of the Ayatollah : the first battle in America's war with militant Islam
- Halfway to halfway and back : more river stories
- Hammerhead Six : how green berets waged an unconventional war against the Taliban to win in Afghanistan's deadly Peach Valley
- Hard times : an oral history of the great depression
- Hard times : an oral history of the great depression
- Hattiesburg : an American city in black and white
- He held radical light : the art of faith, the faith of art
- Healing children : a surgeon's stories from the frontiers of pediatric medicine
- Healing politics : a doctor's journey into the heart of our political epidemic
- Helga's diary : a young girl's account of life in a concentration camp
- Helmet for my pillow : from Parris Island to the Pacific
- Hidden child
- Hidden like Anne Frank : fourteen true stories of survival
- Hitler's forgotten children : a true story of the Lebensborn program and one woman's search for her real identity
- Hitler, my neighbor : memories of a Jewish childhood, 1929-1939
- Homage to Catalonia
- Homage to Catalonia ; : Down and out in Paris and London
- Home : a memoir of my early years
- Homeland : Iraq year zero
- Homes : a refugee story
- Horse soldiers : the extraordinary story of a band of U.S. soldiers who rode to victory in Afghanistan
- Hospital sketches
- How The Secret changed my life : real people, real stories
- How it feels to float
- Human heart, cosmic heart : a doctor's quest to understand, treat, and prevent cardiovascular disease
- Hunter killer : inside America's unmanned air war
- Hunting the truth : memoirs of Beate and Serge Klarsfeld
- Hurricane Street
- I was a teenager in the American Revolution : 21 young patriots and two Tories tell their stories
- I will plant you a lilac tree : a memoir of a Schindler's list survivor
- I'm still here : real diaries of young people who lived during the Holocaust
- I, who did not die : a sweeping story of loss, redemption, and fate
- Ichi-F : a worker's graphic memoir of the Fukushima Nuclear Power Plant
- If I don't make it, I love you : survivors in the aftermath of school shootings
- In Nixon's web : a year in the crosshairs of Watergate
- In broad daylight : the secret procedures behind the Holocaust by bullets
- In the defences of Washington, or, The sunshine in a soldier's life
- In the shadow of freedom : a heroic journey to liberation, manhood, and America
- In the shadow of the White House : a memoir of the Washington and Watergate years 1968-1978
- In the warlords' shadow : special operations forces, the Afghans, and their fight against the Taliban
- In their own words : the Tuskegee airmen
- In wartime : stories from Ukraine
- Incidents in the life of a slave girl
- Inge's war : a German woman's story of family, secrets, and survival under Hitler
- Inside the Hotel Rwanda : what really happened and why it matters today
- Inside the White House in war times
- Inside the White House in war times : memoirs and reports of Lincoln's secretary
- Into the light : the healing art of Kalman Aron
- IraqiGirl : diary of a teenage girl in Iraq
- It will yet be heard : a Polish rabbi's witness of the Shoah and survival
- It's my country too : women's military stories from the American Revolution to Afghanistan
- Iwo Jima : from combat to comrades
- Japan's spy at Pearl Harbor : memoir of an Imperial Navy secret agent
- John Washington's Civil War : a slave narrative
- Just another day in Vietnam
- Justice failed : how "legal ethics" kept me in prison for 26 years
- Katrina's secrets : storms after the storm
- Kim Jiyoung, born 1982
- La reina del sur, Primera parte
- La reina del sur, Primera parte
- La reina del sur, Segunda parte
- Lady Death : the memoirs of Stalin's sniper
- Last days of the Nazis
- Lasting valor
- Later : my life at the edge of the world
- Lavil : life, love, and death in Port-au-Prince
- Le dernier des injustes : The last of the unjust
- Led by faith : rising from the ashes of the Rwandan genocide
- Left of boom : how a young CIA case officer penetrated the Taliban and Al-Qaeda
- Left to tell : discovering God amidst the Rwandan holocaust
- Lest we forget
- Life after Manzanar
- Life and death in Shanghai
- Life and love in nazi Prague : letters from an occupied city
- Life is strange
- Like eating a stone : surviving the past in Bosnia
- Lincoln's White House secretary : the adventurous life of William O. Stoddard
- Lioness
- Little America : incredible true stories of immigrants in America
- Little Hawk and the Lone Wolf : a memoir
- Little green : growing up during the Cultural Revolution
- Long shot : the inside story of the snipers who broke ISIS
- Love in the blitz : the long-lost letters of a brilliant young woman to her beloved on the front
- M is for autism
- MACHETE SEASON : THE KILLERS IN RWANDA SPEAK : A REPORT
- Machete season : the killers in Rwanda speak : a report
- Man's search for meaning
- Man's search for meaning
- Man's search for meaning
- Man's search for meaning : an introduction to logotherapy
- Marcel's letters : a font and the search for one man's fate
- Maryland voices of the Civil War
- Meiguo sui yue : Lives of Chinese in America : Hua yi yi min kou shu shi lu
- Memoirs of the Second World War : an abridgement of the six volumes of The Second World War with an epilogue by the author on the postwar years written for this volume
- Memoranda during the war
- Memories of survival
- Mis memorias
- Moments of reprieve
- My country my country
- My father's roses : a family's journey from World War I to Treblinka
- My secret camera : life in the Lodz ghetto
- My survival : a girl on Schindler's list : a memoir
- Nagasaki : life after nuclear war
- Naples '44
- Narrative of Billy Tilghman
- National bird
- Native memoirs from the War of 1812 : Black Hawk and William Apess
- Never call me a hero : a legendary American dive-bomber pilot remembers the Battle of Midway
- Never quit : from Alaskan wilderness rescues to Afghanistan firefights as an elite special ops PJ
- Nieve en La Habana : confesiones de un cubanito
- Night
- Night
- Night
- No archive will restore you
- No impact man
- No mercy from the Japanese : a survivor's account of the Burma railway and the hell ships
- No ordinary dog : my partner from the SEAL Teams to the Bin Laden raid
- No such thing as can't : a triumphant story of faith and perseverance
- No turning back : life, loss, and hope in wartime Syria
- Noble women of the North
- Nothing good can come from this : essays
- Now the drum of war : Walt Whitman and his brothers in the Civil War
- Numbered
- On campaign with the Army of the Potomac : the Civil War journal of Theodore Ayrault Dodge
- On the horizon
- On the run in Nazi Berlin : a memoir
- Once upon a town : the miracle of the North Platte Canteen
- One million steps : a marine platoon at war
- One woman's Army : a Black officer remembers the WAC
- Operation Caesar : at the heart of the Syrian death machine
- Operation Just Cause : Panama, December 1989 : a soldier's eyewitness account
- Orchard House : how a neglected garden taught one family to grow
- Ordinary heroes : the story of volunteers in the First World War
- Ordinary men : Reserve Police Battalion 101 and the final solution in Poland
- Our beloved kin : a new history of King Philip's War
- Our crime was being Jewish : hundreds of Holocaust survivors tell their stories
- Out of action
- Outside the wire : ten lessons I've learned in everyday courage
- Palestine speaks : narratives of life under occupation
- Parallel lines
- Patient H69 : the story of my second sight
- Patriots from the Barrio
- Persepolis
- Pickett's charge at Gettysburg : a bloody clash in the Civil War
- Pittsburgh remembers World War II
- Pogue's War : Diaries of a WWII Combat Historian
- Postcards from the trenches : a German soldier's testimony of the Great War
- Potomac diary : a soldier's account of the Capital in crisis, 1864-1865
- Pumpkinflowers : a soldier's story
- Questions I am asked about the Holocaust
- Rainbow's end : a memoir of childhood, war and an African farm
- Reading the man : a portrait of Robert E. Lee through his private letters
- Recipes remembered : a celebration of survival : the remarkable stories and authentic recipes of Holocaust survivors / [compiled by] June Feiss Hersh
- Red Platoon : a true story of American valor
- Red land, Yellow River : a Story from the Cultural Revolution
- Redemption : a street fighter's path to peace
- Relentless : unleashing a life of purpose, grit, and faith
- Remember Little Bighorn : Indians, soldiers, and scouts tell their stories
- Remember Little Bighorn : Indians, soldiers, and scouts tell their stories
- Remember Pearl Harbor : American and Japanese survivors tell their stories
- Remember WW II : kids who survived tell their stories
- Remember World War II : kids who survived tell their stories
- Remember us : my journey from the shtetl through the holocaust
- Renia's diary
- Renia's diary
- Rescued from ISIS : the gripping true story of how a father saved his son
- Resistance : untold stories of Jewish partisans
- Return to Tarawa : the Leon Cooper story
- Revolution! : writings from Russia, 1917
- Roosevelt and the Holocaust : how FDR saved the Jews and brought hope to a nation
- Rue Ordener, Rue Labat
- Rwanda means the universe : a native's memoir of blood and bloodlines
- Rywka's diary : the writings of a Jewish girl from the Lodz Ghetto, found at Auschwitz in 1945 and published seventy years later
- Sachiko : a Nagasaki bomb survivor's story
- Saigon calling : London 1963-75
- Salvaged pages : young writers' diaries of the Holocaust
- Savage appetites : four true stories of women, crime, and obsession
- Seven pillars of wisdom : a triumph
- Seven pillars of wisdom : a triumph : the complete 1922 text
- Shadows of blue and gray : the Civil War writings of Ambrose Bierce
- Shoot like a girl : one woman's dramatic fight in Afghanistan and on the home front
- Shoot like a girl : one woman's dramatic fight in Afghanistan and on the home front
- Shooting Vietnam : reflections on the war by its military photographers
- Small town in the big city : the shopkeepers and business community of Chevy Chase, Washington, DC at the beginning of the 21st century
- Snow falling in spring : Coming of age in China during the cultural revolution
- Soaring to glory : a Tuskegee airman's firsthand account of World War II
- Soldier, sailor, frogman, spy, airman, gangster, kill or die : how the Allies won on D-day
- Somme : into the breach
- Soul surfer : a true story of faith, family, and fighting to get back on the board
- South to Selma : 'outside agitators' and the civil rights march that changed America
- Specimen days and Collect
- Specimen days in America
- Spyglass : an autobiography
- Stakes is high : life after the American dream
- Still alive : a Holocaust girlhood remembered
- Storm of steel
- Storytelling time : native North American art from the collections at the University of North Dakota
- Stray : memoir of a runaway
- Striking back : a Jewish commando's war against the Nazis
- Such anxious hours : Wisconsin women's voices from the Civil War
- Sudan's Nuba Mountains people under siege : accounts by humanitarians in the battle zone
- Suffering and sunset : World War I in the art and life of Horace Pippin
- Survival in Auschwitz : the Nazi assault on humanity
- Surviving Biafra : a Nigerwife's story
- Surviving Hitler : a boy in the Nazi death camps
- Surviving Hitler : a boy in the Nazi death camps
- Surviving the angel of death : the true story of a Mengele twin in Auschwitz
- Survivor : Auschwitz, the Death March and my fight for freedom
- Survivor cafe : the legacy of trauma and the labyrinth of memory
- Survivors club : the true story of a very young prisoner of Auschwitz
- Survivors club : the true story of a very young prisoner of Auschwitz
- Survivors of the holocaust : true stories of six extraordinary children
- Swansong 1945 : a collective diary of the last days of the Third Reich
- Taliban safari : one day in the Surkhagan Valley
- Tanker pilot : lessons from the cockpit
- Tap code : the epic survival tale of a Vietnam POW and the secret code that changed everything : a true story
- Terezín : voices from the Holocaust
- The Auschwitz journal : a Catholic story from the camps
- The Civil War
- The Civil War : the final year told by those who lived it
- The Civil War : the first year told by those who lived it
- The Civil War : the third year told by those who lived it
- The Egyptians : a radical history of Egypt's unfinished revolution
- The Falklands War : there and back again : the story of Naval party 8901
- The Holocaust : in memory of millions
- The Holocaust by bullets : a priest's journey to uncover the truth behind the murder of 1.5 million Jews
- The Johnstown flood
- The Junior Officers' Reading Club : killing time and fighting wars
- The Mirror Test : America at War in Iraq and Afghanistan
- The Nazi officer's wife : how one Jewish woman survived the Holocaust
- The New York times complete Civil War, 1861-1865
- The Old fashion farmer's motives for leaving the Church of England, and embracing the Roman Catholic faith, and his reasons for adhering to the same : together with an explanation of some particular points, , misrepresented by those of a different persuasion : with an appendix, by way of antidote against all upstart new faiths, concluded with asking thirty plain questions
- The Rough Riders; : an autobiography
- The Rough riders
- The Ukrainian night : an intimate history of revolution
- The War of 1812 : writings from America's second war of independence
- The annotated memoirs of Ulysses S. Grant
- The battle of Mogadishu : firsthand accounts from the men of Task Force Ranger
- The beauty and the sorrow : an intimate history of the First World War
- The best of me
- The book of roads : a life made from travel
- The boxer's story : fighting for my life in the Nazi death camps
- The boy on the wooden box : how the impossible became possible...on Schindler's list
- The boy who followed his father into Auschwitz : a true story of family and survival
- The boys' war : Confederate and Union soldiers talk about the Civil War
- The bug girl : a true story
- The cat with the yellow star : coming of age in Terezin
- The children of Chabannes
- The choice : Poland, 1939-1945
- The chosen few : a company of paratroopers and its heroic struggle to survive in the mountains of Afghanistan
- The complete Persepolis
- The country under my skin : a memoir of love and war
- The cultural revolution : a people's history, 1962-1976
- The day I stopped being pretty : a memoir
- The deepest South of all : true stories from Natchez, Mississippi
- The devil's dictionary, tales, & memoirs
- The diary of James T. Ayers, Civil War recruiter
- The diary of Susie King Taylor, Civil War nurse
- The diary of a Napoleonic foot soldier
- The diary of a young girl
- The diary of a young girl
- The diary of a young girl : [the definitive edition]
- The diary of a young girl : the definitive edition
- The diary of a young girl : the definitive edition
- The dogs are eating them now : our war in Afghanistan
- The drowned and the saved
- The faithful gardener : a wise tale about that which can never die
- The fighters : Americans in combat in Afghanistan and Iraq
- The flight of Jesse Leroy Brown
- The forgotten highlander : an incredible WWII story of survival in the Pacific
- The fox hunt : a refugee's memoir of coming to America
- The gift of forgiveness : inspiring stories from those who have overcome the unforgivable
- The girl in the green sweater : a life in Holocaust's shadow
- The girl who smiled beads : [a story of war and what comes after]
- The good occupation : American soldiers and the hazards of peace
- The great derangement : a terrifying true story of war, politics, and religion at the twilight of the American empire
- The greatest generation
- The hands of war : a tale of endurance and hope, from a survivor of the Holocaust
- The hiding place
- The journals of Charlotte Forten Grimké
- The last Jew of Treblinka : a survivor's memory 1942-1943
- The last fighter pilot : the true story of the final combat mission of World War II
- The last of the doughboys : the forgotten generation and their forgotten World War
- The liberators : America's witnesses to the Holocaust
- The lie : a memoir of two marriages, catfishing & coming out
- The long road home : a story of war and family
- The long way home
- The morning they came for us : dispatches from Syria
- The night trilogy : Night ; Dawn ; Day / Elie Wiesel
- The nine lives of Pakistan : dispatches from a precarious state
- The nurses : a year of secrets, drama, and miracles with the heroes of the hospital
- The odyssey of Echo Company : the 1968 Tet Offensive and the epic battle to survive the Vietnam War
- The only plane in the sky : an oral history of 9/11
- The only plane in the sky : an oral history of 9/11
- The operator : firing the shots that killed Osama bin Laden and my years as a SEAL Team warrior
- The outskirts of hope : based on the journals of her mother, Aura Kern Kruger
- The people's war : original voices of the American Revolution
- The phantom Vietnam War : an F-4 pilot's combat over Laos
- The pianist
- The pianist : the extraordinary story of one man's survival in Warsaw, 1939-45
- The prisoner and the bomb
- The prisoner in his palace : Saddam Hussein, his American guards, and what history leaves unsaid
- The ragged edge : a US marine's account of leading the Iraqi Army Fifth Battalion
- The railway man
- The road south : personal stories of the Freedom Riders
- The rose hotel : a memoir of secrets, loss, and love from Iran to America
- The search for Major Plagge : the Nazi who saved Jews
- The shift : one nurse, twelve hours, four patients' lives
- The slaves' war : the Civil War in the words of former slaves
- The slaves' war : the Civil War in the words of former slaves
- The smell of battle, the taste of siege : a sensory history of the Civil War
- The soldier's two bodies : military sacrifice and popular sovereignty in Revolutionary War veteran narratives
- The stone crusher : the true story of a father and son's fight for survival in Auschwitz
- The thunder before the storm : the autobiography of Clyde Bellecourt
- The unraveling : high hopes and missed opportunities in Iraq
- The unwanted : a memoir
- The unwomanly face of war : an oral history of women in World War II
- The upstairs room
- The victors : Eisenhower and his boys : the men of World War II
- The year of the intern
- Their finest hour
- Then came the fire : personal accounts from the Pentagon, 11 September 2001
- There was a country : a personal history of Biafra
- They have left us here to die : the Civil War prison diary of Sgt. Lyle Adair, 111th U.S. Colored Infantry
- Three rivers, the James, the Potomac, the Hudson: : a retrospect of peace and war,
- To Auschwitz and back : the Joe Engel story
- To end a war
- To hell and back : the last train from Hiroshima
- To the edge of the sky : a story of love, betrayal, suffering, and the strength of human courage
- To the limit : an Air Cav Huey pilot in Vietnam
- Topgun : an American story
- Torpedoed : the true story of the World War II sinking of "The Children's Ship"
- Tough sell : fighting the media war in Iraq
- Tower stories : an oral history of 9/11
- Transcending darkness : a girl's journey out of the Holocaust
- Trouble the water
- Tupac : the lost prison tapes : uncensored & uncut
- Two rings : a story of love and war
- Un-American : a soldier's reckoning of our longest war
- Uncanny valley : and other adventures in the narrative
- Undaunted : my fight against America's enemies, at home and abroad
- Undaunted : surviving Jonestown, summoning courage, and fighting back
- Underground in Berlin : a young woman's extraordinary tale of survival in the heart of Nazi Germany
- Unlikely heroes
- Untold : the New Orleans 9th Ward you never knew
- Vietnam bao chi : warriors of word and film
- Voces de Chernóbil : crónica del futuro
- Voices from Stalingrad : unique first-hand accounts from World War II's cruellest battle
- Voices from the Second World War : stories of war as told to children of today
- Voices from the Warsaw Ghetto : writing our history
- Voices of strength : sons and daughters of suicide speak out
- Voices of the 55th : letters from the 55th Massachusetts Volunteers, 1861-1865
- Voices of the American Revolution in the Carolinas
- Voices of the Arab Spring : personal stories of the Arab revolutions
- Voices of valor : D-Day: June 6, 1944
- Voices rising : stories from the Katrina Narrative Project
- Voices rising II : more stories from the Katrina Narrative Project
- Volcanoes : encounters through the ages
- WITNESS : VOICES FROM THE HOLOCAUST
- Waiting for snow in Havana : confessions of a Cuban boy
- Walking Waterloo : a guide
- Waltz with Bashir
- War child
- War child : a child soldier's story
- War flower : my life after Iraq
- Waterloo
- We crossed a bridge and it trembled : voices from Syria
- We few
- We were there
- We wish to inform you that tomorrow we will be killed with our families
- Went the day well? : witnessing Waterloo
- What matters most : the Get Your Shit Together guide to wills, money, insurance, and life's "what-ifs"
- What to expect when you're no longer expecting : having a miscarriage: ideas to support, words to say, suggestions to ease natural birth
- What we saw
- What we saw : [the events of September 11, 2001, in words, pictures, and video]
- When Heaven and Earth Changed Places : a Vietnamese Woman's Journey from War to Peace
- When memory comes
- When the killer man comes : eliminating terrorists as a special operations sniper
- Where the dead pause, and the Japanese say goodbye : a journey
- Whispers in the tall grass
- White light, black rain : the destruction of Hiroshima and Nagasaki
- With the Old Breed at Peleliu and Okinawa
- Witness : voices from the Holocaust
- World War I and America : told by the Americans who lived it
- Write to me : letters from Japanese American children to the Librarian they left behind
- Yadābasā Guzo
- Zen under fire : how I found peace in the midst of war
- Zinky boys : Soviet voices from the Afghanistan war
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- Personal narratives -- Israeli
- Personal narratives
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- Personal narratives -- American
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- Personal narratives -- Belarusian
- Personal narratives -- British
- Personal narratives -- British
- Personal narratives -- Canadian
- Personal narratives -- Confederate
- Personal narratives -- Confederate
- Personal narratives -- Czech
- Personal narratives -- Dutch
- Personal narratives -- Dutch
- Personal narratives -- English
- Personal narratives -- French
- Personal narratives -- French
- Personal narratives -- German
- Personal narratives -- German
- Personal narratives -- Hungarian
- Personal narratives -- Iraqi
- Personal narratives -- Iraqi
- Personal narratives -- Italian
- Personal narratives -- Japanese
- Personal narratives -- Japanese
- Personal narratives -- Japanese
- Personal narratives -- Jewish
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- Personal narratives -- Latvian
- Personal narratives -- Polish
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- Personal narratives -- Russian
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- Personal narratives -- Syrian
- Personal narratives -- Ukrainian
- Personal narratives -- Vietnamese
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- Zimbabwe -- History -- Chimurenga War, 1966-1980 -- Personal narratives
- Yugoslav War, 1991-1995 -- Personal narratives
- Youth -- Ethiopia -- History -- Personal narratives
- Yemen (Republic) -- History -- Civil War, 2015- -- Personal narratives
- Wounded Knee (S.D.) -- History -- Indian occupation, 1973 -- Personal narratives
- World War, 1939-1945. -- Personal narratives
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Veterans -- United States -- Personal narratives
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Personal narratives | Juvenile literature
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Personal narratives | Drama
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Personal narratives
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Participation, African American -- Personal narratives
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Netherlands -- Personal narratives | Juvenile literature
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Mexican Americans -- Personal narratives
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Jewish resistance -- Personal narratives
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Germany -- Personal narratives
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Campaigns -- France | Normandy -- Personal narratives
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Aerial operations, American -- Personal narratives
- World War, 1914-1918 -- Personal narratives
- World War, 1914-1918 -- France -- Personal narratives
- Women singers -- Great Britain -- Personal narratives
- Wisconsin -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Personal narratives
- Waterloo, Battle of, Waterloo, Belgium, 1815 -- Personal narratives
- Watergate Affair, 1972-1974 -- Personal narratives
- Washington (D.C.) -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Personal narratives
- War on Terrorism, 2001-2009 -- Personal narratives
- Volcanic eruptions -- Personal narratives
- Virginia -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Personal narratives
- Vietnam War, 1961-1975 -- Veterans -- United States -- Personal narratives
- Vietnam War, 1961-1975 -- Personal narratives | Comic books, strips, etc
- Vietnam War, 1961-1975 -- Personal narratives
- Victims -- Personal narratives
- United States -- History -- War of 1812 -- Personal narratives