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Guadalcanal Diary

Guadalcanal Diary more books like this

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 that continues to fascinate us all, and to military history in general. Unlike some of those on Guadalcanal in the fall of 1942, Richard Tregaskis volunteered to be there. An on-location news ...

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Rumor of War

Rumor of War more books like this

by Philip Caputo

This powerful memoir chronicles Caputo's hitch in Vietnam as a Marine lieutenant, describing his transformation from an idealistic young soldier into a ruthless killer, and then to a cynical critic of war's sickening waste and madness.

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Life and Death in Shanghai

Life and Death in Shanghai more books like this

by Nien Cheng

This is a first-hand account of China's cultural revolution. Nien Cheng, an anglophile and fluent English-speaker who worked for Shell in Shanghai under Mao, was put under house arrest by Red Guards in 1966 and subsequently jailed. All attempts to make her confess to the charges of being a British spy failed; all efforts to indoctrinate her were ...

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The Sunflower: On the Possibilities and Limits of Forgiveness

The Sunflower: On the Possibilities and Limits of Forgiveness more books like this

by Simon Wiesenthal, Harry James Cargas (Editor), Bonny V Fetterman (Editor)

Can evil be forgiven? The famed Nazi hunter Simon Wiesenthal asked this question of people from many walks of life--including authors, political leaders, and scholars--and collected their responses in this book.

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Greatest Generation

Greatest Generation more books like this

by Tom Brokaw

Accompanying an NBC television special, this title features the American men and women who were born in the 1920s, experienced the unique circumstances of a World War, and went on to become the parents of the "baby boomers." Award-winning anchorman Brokaw has reported on many of the world's major news events since he began his career with NBC News ...

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Survival in Auschwitz, The Nazi assault on humanity.

Survival in Auschwitz, The Nazi assault on humanity. more books like this

by Primo Levi

Originally entitled, IF THIS IS A MAN, Levi's narrative of his experiences at Auschwitz is unique among Holocaust memoirs for its simplicity, its lack of self-pity, and its objectivity; he often emphasizes not his own sufferings but the many instances of goodness he found among his fellow prisoners. In an appendix, Levi stated: "[I]n writing this ...

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We Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will Be Killed with Our Families: Stories

We Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will Be Killed with Our Families: Stories more books like this

by Philip Gourevitch

A history of the 1994 Rwanda genocide, in which longstanding enmity between the Tutsi and Hutu tribes resulted in the murder of hundreds of thousands of Tutsis and moderate Hutus by the extremist Hutu majority. Gourevitch contrasts horrific eyewitness accounts told by Rwandans with the muted responses of the rest of the world. He also assesses ...

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The Hiding Place: The Triumphant True Story of Corrie Ten Boom

The Hiding Place: The Triumphant True Story of Corrie Ten Boom more books like this

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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A Soldier's Story

A Soldier's Story more books like this

by Omar Nelson Bradley

Omar Nelson Bradley led some of the major military campaigns during the Second World War, including the Normandy landings in June of 1944. The American commander is credited with supervising more soldiers at one time than any other leader in U.S. history. His memoir is considered a classic of military history.

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War as I Knew It

War as I Knew It more books like this

by George Patton

First published in 1947, War As I Knew It is the captivating memoir of George S. Patton, Jr., the legendary American general, incendiary warrior, and unparalleled military tactician of World War II. Drawing on his vivid memories of battle and detailed diaries, Patton dramatically recounts his celebrated Third Army's sweeping campaign across ...

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The Second World War more books like this

by Winston S Churchill

In six volumes.

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If I Die in a Combat Zone: Box Me Up and Ship Me Home more books like this

by Tim O'Brien

Novelist O'Brien's first book is a harrowing portrait of an infantry soldier's life in Vietnam.

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Crusade in Europe more books like this

by Dwight Eisenhower

Five-star General Dwight D. Eisenhower was unquestionably the single most important military figure of World War II. For many historians, his memoirs of this critical period of US history have become the single most important record of that conflict. "Crusade in Europe" is the complete story of the war as Eisenhower planned it and lived it. ...

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Dispatches more books like this

by Michael Herr

DISPATCHES is considered by many to be one of the finest nonfiction books on the Vietnam War. Assigned in 1967 to cover the war by Esquire magazine, Michael Herr filed reports on his own schedule and without deadlines. His memoir, DISPATCHES, was published several years later and is based on those reports for Esquire. In a candid and non ...

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Seven Roads to Hell: A Screaming Eagle at Bastogne more books like this

by Donald R Burgett

This powerful, action-packed memoir puts readers into the middle of the Battle of the Bulge and the Allies' legendary fighting force known as the Screaming Eagles. Along the way, Burgett, just 19 at the time of the battle, vividly captures some of the most horrific action of World War II.

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Dry Tears: The Story of a Lost Childhood more books like this

by Nechama Tec

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Brave Men more books like this

by Ernie Pyle

Europe 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 combat into our living rooms, Pyle's on-the-spot reporting gave the American public a firsthand view of what war was like for the boys on the front. Pyle followed the soldiers into the trenches, ...

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Hiding Place more books like this

by Corrie Ten Boom

As the Nazis swept through Holland, Corrie ten Boom and her family risked everything for the sake of others, and for the love of God. This is Corrie's story of how her family offered shelter to persecuted Jews, how the family was betrayed and imprisoned, and yet they retained their faith.

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Goodbye to all that more books like this

by Robert Graves

Robert Graves, English novelist, poet and essayist, describes the events of his youth, and how he came--along with the rest of the world--to the end of his innocence during World War I.

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Eyewitness Auschwitz: Three Years in the Gas Chambers more books like this

by Filip Muller

This work offers a shattering account of an Auschwitz prisoner who worked for more than two years in the gassing installations and crematoria and lived to tell about it.

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The Good Old Days: The Holocaust as Seen by Its Perpetrators and Bystanders more books like this

by Ernst Klee (Editor), Willi Dressen (Editor), Volker Reiss (Editor)

"The Good Old Days" is the title of a photo album kept by the Camp Commandant of Treblinka, Kurt Franz. This volume contains letters, diaries, reports and photographs kept by the executioners and sympathizers of the Holocaust.

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Sybil more books like this

by Flora Rhea Schreiber

Records the life of a young woman who assumed sixteen personalities, possibly due to abuse by her neurotic mother, and describes the events and outcome of her eleven years in psychoanalysis.

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The Killing Zone: My Life in the Vietnam War more books like this

by Frederick Downs

"The best damned book from the point of view of the infantrymen who fought there."-"Army Times"

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Berlin Diary: The Journal of a Foreign Correspondent 1934-1941 more books like this

by William L Shirer

CBS radio broadcaster William L. Shirer was virtually unknown in 1940 when he decided there might be a book in the diary he had kept in Europe during the 1930s - specifically those sections dealing with the collapse of the European democracies and the rise of Nazi Germany. "Berlin Diary" first appeared in 1941, and the timing was perfect. The ...

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Five Years to Freedom: The True Story of a Vietnam POW more books like this

by James N Rowe

When Green Beret Lieutenant James N. Rowe was captured in 1963 in Vietnam, his life became more than a matter of staying alive. In a Vietcong POW camp, Rowe endured beri-beri, dysentery, and tropical fungus diseases. He suffered grueling psychological and physical torment. He experienced the loneliness and frustration of watching his friends die. ...

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