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1. The Hiding Place: The Triumphant True Story of Corrie Ten Boom
by Corrie Ten Boom, John Sherrill, Elizabeth Sherrill
The true story of two sisters sent to a Nazi concentration camp for helping Jews, and how they survived.
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2. My War
by Andy Rooney
In this fine and wholeheartedly irreverent memoir, Rooney--the 60 Minutes commentator--recounts what happened as a war correspondent while honing his ... More
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3. The Greatest Generation
by Tom Brokaw
In this superb book, Tom Brokaw goes out into America, to tell through the stories of individual men and women the story of a generation - America's ... More
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4. Guadalcanal Diary
by Richard Tregaskis
history U.S.A. $14.95 Canada $22.50 This celebrated classic gives a soldier's-eye-view of the Guadalcanal battles--crucial to World War II, the war ... More
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5. A Rumor of War
by Philip Caputo
In March 1965, Marine Lieutnant Philip J. Caputo landed in Danang with the first ground combat unit committed to gith in Vietnam. Sixteen months ... More
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6. Storm of Steel
by Ernst Junger
Ernst Junger served in the German front line, fighting both the British and the French for most of World War I. Young, tough, patriotic but also ... More
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7. The Second World War
by Sir Winston Churchill
Presents the essence of Sir Winston Churchill's personal story of the years between 1939 and 1945. His memoirs, which first appeared in six volumes, ... More
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8. The Good War
by Studs Terkel
PULITZER PRIZE WINNER OVER FIVE MONTHS ON THE "NEW YORK TIMES" BESTSELLER LIST
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9. Dispatches
by Michael Herr
When Michael Herr went to Vietnam in 1967 he was virtually unknown as a writer. But with "Dispatches" he brought us a terrifying account of what it ... More
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10. The Killing Zone: My Life in the Vietnam War
by Frederick Downs
The best damned book from the point of view of the infantrymen who fought there. "Army Times"
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11. The Sunflower: On the Possibilities and Limits of Forgiveness
by Simon Wiesenthal, Harry James Cargas (Editor), Bonny V Fetterman (Editor)
List of all editionsBased on his experiences as a concentration camp prisoner brought before a dying Nazi soldier who asked for his forgiveness, "The Sunflower" is a ... More
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12. Sybil
by Flora Rheta Schreiber
List of all editionsHere is the unbelievable yet true story of Sybil Dorsett, a survivor of terrible childhood abuse who as an adult was a victim of sudden and ... More
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14. Frauen: German Women Recall the Third Reich
by Alison Owings
List of all editionsAlison Owings interviewed and here records the words of 29 German women during the Third Reich. Working for the Resistance, joining the Nazi Party, ... More
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15. Brave men.
by Ernie Pyle
List of all editionsEurope was in the throes of World War II, and when America joined the fighting, Ernie Pyle went along. Long before television beamed daily images of ... More
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16. Homage to Catalonia
by George Orwell
List of all editions'Every line of serious work that I have written since 1936 has been written, directly or indirectly, against totalitarianism and for democratic ... More
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17. Art from the Ashes: A Holocaust Anthology
by Professor Lawrence L Langer
List of all editionsThis far-reaching collection of art, drama, poetry, and prose about the Holocaust--including a powerful visual essay of artwork from the Terezin ... More
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18. Shantung Compound
by Langdon Brown Gilkey
List of all editionsThis vivid diary of life in a Japanese internment camp during World War II examines the moral challenges encountered in conditions of confinement and ... More
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19. The Deadly Brotherhood: The American Combat Soldier in World War II
by John C McManus
List of all editionsWhat makes a soldier enter the inferno of death and destruction that is the battlefield? What was battle like for the World War II American combat ... More
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20. If I Die in a Combat Zone: Box Me Up and Ship Me Home
by Tim O'Brien
List of all editionsO'Brien's searing memoir of his years as a soldier in Vietnam takes readers with him through the ghostly ambiguities of manhood and morality in a war ... More
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21. Leap Into Darkness: Seven Years on the Run in Wartime Europe
by Leo Bretholz, Michael Olesker
List of all editionsLeo Bretholz survived the Holocaust by a series of audacious escapes in an effort to stay one step ahead of the Nazis and their Final Solution. He ... More
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22. A Soldier's Story
by Omar Nelson Bradley
List of all editionsThe memoirs of "the G.I. General", who, surrounded by a sea of prima donnas during World War II, never stopped quietly learning his trade until he ... More
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24. Playing for Time
by Fania Fenelon
List of all editionsIn 1943, Fania Fenelon was a Paris cabaret singer, a secret member of the Resistance, and a Jew. Captured by the Nazis, she was sent to Auschwitz ... More
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25. Soledad Brother: The Prison Letters of George Jackson
by George Jackson
List of all editionsA collection of Jackson's letters from prison, "Soledad Brother" is an outspoken condemnation of the racism of white America and a powerful appraisal ... More







