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- "--the real war will never get in the books" : selections from writers during the Civil War
- "The good old days" : the Holocaust as seen by its perpetrators and bystanders
- "The good war" : an oral history of World War Two
- "War is hell!" : William T. Sherman's personal narrative of his march through Georgia
- "When they came to take my father" : voices of the Holocaust
- 1001 nights in Iraq : the shocking story of an American forced to fight for Saddam against the country he loves
- 12 strong : the declassified true story of the horse soldiers
- 13 hours : a firsthand account of what really happened in Benghazi
- 13 hours : the inside account of what really happened in Benghazi
- 15 journeys Warsaw to London
- 1920 Diary
- 1948, a soldier's tale : the bloody road to Jerusalem
- 30 things to do when you turn 30 : thirty achievers on turning thirty
- 33 days
- 444 days : the hostages remember
- 8 seconds of courage : a soldier's story from immigrant to the Medal of Honor
- 88 days to Kandahar : a CIA diary
- A Berliner's luck : surviving the Third Reich and World War II
- A Black woman's Civil War memoirs : reminiscences of my life in camp with the 33rd U.S. Colored Troops, late 1st South Carolina Volunteers
- A Confederate girl's diary
- A German of the resistance ; : the last letters of Count Helmuth James von Moltke
- A Nazi childhood
- A WASP among Eagles : a woman military test pilot in World War II
- A Yankee private's Civil War.
- A boy in war
- A bundle from Britain
- A child's war : World War II through the eyes of children
- A conspiracy of decency : the rescue of the Danish Jews during World War II
- A constant longing : memoirs of a Palestinian woman
- A cup of tears : a diary of the Warsaw Ghetto
- A decade of hope : stories of grief and endurance from 9/11 families and friends
- A film unfinished
- A hidden childhood, 1942-1945
- A hidden life : a memoir of August 1969
- A hundred and one days
- A hundred and one days : a Baghdad journal
- A journal of the great war
- A life in a year : the American infantryman in Vietnam, 1965-1972
- 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 mind in prison : the memoir of a son and soldier of the Third Reich
- A moment of war : a memoir of the Spanish Civil War
- A narrative of some of the adventures, dangers and sufferings of a Revolutionary soldier.
- A people's history of World War II : the world's most destructive conflict, as told by the people who lived through it
- A promise to remember : the Holocaust in the words and voices of its survivors
- A quiet American : the secret war of Varian Fry
- A rumor of war
- A sailor's story
- A sense of duty : my father, my American journey
- A small corner of hell : dispatches from Chechnya
- A sniper's journey : the truth about the man behind the rifle
- A soldier's promise : the heroic true story of an American soldier and an Iraqi boy
- A stranger to myself : the inhumanity of war : Russia, 1941-1944
- A student's diary: : Budapest, October 16-November 1, 1956.
- A testament of revolution
- A tiger among us : a story of valor in Vietnam's A Shau Valley
- A time for war : veterans' stories from one American town: Scituate, Massachusetts
- A time to fight back : true stories of wartime resistance
- A voice from the Holocaust
- A voice of thunder : the Civil War letters of George E. Stephens
- A woman in Berlin : eight weeks in the conquered city : a diary
- A writer at war : Vasily Grossman with the Red Army, 1941-1945
- A-train : memoirs of a Tuskegee Airman
- About face
- Above and beyond
- Adolf Hitler; my part in his downfall
- After the Holocaust the bells still ring
- After the fall : New Yorkers remember September 2001 and the years that followed
- Afterwords : stories and reports from 9/11 and beyond
- Alice's piano : the life of Alice Herz-Sommer
- Alicia : my story
- All but my life
- All rivers run to the sea : memoirs
- All rivers run to the sea : memoirs
- All the gallant men : an American sailor's firsthand account of Pearl Harbor
- Alone : Britain, Churchill, and Dunkirk : defeat into victory
- Ambrose Bierce's Civil War
- America's Japan : the first year, 1945-1946
- American daughter gone to war : on the front lines with an army nurse in Vietnam
- American sniper : the autobiography of the most lethal sniper in U.S. military history
- American sniper : the autobiography of the most lethal sniper in U.S. military history
- American warrior : a combat memoir of Vietnam
- Among warriors in Iraq : true grit, special ops, and raiding in Mosul and Fallujah
- An American heroine in the French Resistance : the diary and memoir of Virginia d'Albert-Lake
- An interrupted life : the diaries of Etty Hillesum, 1941-1943
- 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
- An unbroken chain : my journey through the Nazi Holocaust
- And justice for all : an oral history of the Japanese American detention camps
- And no birds sang
- Angels of mercy : the Army nurses of World War II
- Angels with dirty faces : three stories of crime, prison, and redemption
- Anne Frank : the diary of a young girl
- Anne Frank and the children of the Holocaust
- Anne Frank's Tales from the secret annex
- Another day of life
- Appel is forever : a child's memoir
- Army life in a Black regiment
- Army life in a Black regiment,
- Army of one : a film
- As good as dead : the daring escape of American POWs from a Japanese death camp
- 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 ground zero : young reporters who were there tell their stories
- Atlanta
- Auschwitz : a doctor's eyewitness account
- Auschwitz and after
- Babylon by bus : or, the true story of two friends who gave up their valuable franchise selling Yankees suck t-shirts at Fenway to find meaning and adventure in Iraq, where they became employed by the occupation in jobs for which they lacked qualification and witnessed much that amazed and disturbed them
- Bad times, good friends : a memoir, Berlin 1945
- Baghdad at sunrise : a brigade commander's war in Iraq
- Baghdad burning : girl blog from Iraq
- Baghdad burning II : more girl blog from Iraq
- Baghdad pups
- Basher five-two : the true story of F-16 fighter pilot Captain Scott O'Grady
- Battle ready : memoir of a SEAL warrior medic
- Battles and leaders of the Civil War
- Bedside manners : one doctor's reflections on the oddly intimate encounters between patient and healer
- Before the rain : (a tale in three parts)
- Before the rain : a memoir of love and revolution
- Behind enemy lines : the true story of a French Jewish spy in Nazi Germany
- Behind the lines : the oral history of Special Operations in World War II
- Behind the secret window : a memoir of a hidden childhood during World War Two
- Bend, not break : a life in two worlds
- Berlin diaries, 1940-1945
- Berlin diary : the journal of a foreign correspondent, 1934-1941
- Between two streams : a diary from Bergen-Belsen
- Beyond the mountains of the damned : the war inside Kosovo
- Billy Yank & Johnny Reb : soldiering in the Civil War
- Black Knights : on the bloody road to Baghdad
- Blind ambition : the White House years
- Blood Papa : Rwanda's new generation
- Blood and thunder : the boys of Eton College and the First World War
- Blood makes the grass grow green : a year in the desert with team America
- Blood red sunset : a memoir of the Chinese Cultural Revolution
- Blood sisters : the French Revolution in women's memory
- Bloody engagements : John R. Kelso's Civil War
- Bob Hope remembers-- World War II : the European theatre and D-Day with Dolores Hope
- Body & soul : Diana & Kathy
- Born Jewish : a childhood in occupied Europe
- Bosnia : hope in the ashes
- Brain storms : the race to unlock the mysteries of Parkinson's disease
- Brave men, gentle heroes : American fathers and sons in World War II and Vietnam
- Breach of etiquette and other short stories
- Breakout : the Chosin Reservoir campaign, Korea 1950
- Bringing down Gaddafi : on the ground with the Libyan rebels
- Broken promises, broken dreams : stories of Jewish and Palestinian trauma and resilience
- Brothers in battle, best of friends : two WWII paratroopers from the original Band of brothers tell their story
- Brothers of the gun : a memoir of the Syrian War
- Burden of memory
- Burned child seeks the fire : a memoir
- Buster : the military dog who saved a thousand lives
- Buster : the military dog who saved a thousand lives
- By honor bound : two Navy SEALs, the Medal of Honor, and a story of extraordinary courage
- Bye bye Babylon : Beirut 1975-79
- Byłem W łagrze
- Carrier
- Caught in the revolution : Petrograd, Russia, 1917-- a world on the edge
- Caught in the revolution : Petrograd, Russia, 1917--a world on the edge
- Censored voices
- Changing course : the wartime experiences of a member of the Women's Royal Naval Service, 1939-1945
- Chasing ghosts : a soldier's fight for America from Baghdad to Washington
- Chasing the dragon : a veteran journalist's firsthand account of the 1949 Chinese Revolution
- Chechnya diary : a war correspondent's story of surviving the war in Chechnya
- Chief of station, Congo : a memoir of 1960-67
- Children in the Holocaust and World War II : their secret diaries
- Children of Hiroshima
- Children of the Blitz : memories of wartime childhood
- Children of the Holocaust
- Children of the flames : Dr. Josef Mengele and the untold story of the twins of Auschwitz
- Christmas soul : African American holiday stories
- Chronicle of youth : the War diary, 1913-1917
- Chronicles of the gringos : the U.S. Army in the Mexican War, 1846-1848 ; accounts of eyewitnesses & combatants
- Civil War nurse : the diary and letters of Hannah Ropes
- Clara's war : one girl's story of survival
- Code name Christiane Clouet : a woman in the French Resistance
- Code talker : [the first and only memoir by one of the original Navajo code talkers of WWII]
- Code talker stories
- Codebreakers : the inside story of Bletchley Park
- Coffin corner boys : one bomber, ten men, and their harrowing escape from Nazi-occupied France
- Collateral damage : America's war against Iraqi civilians
- Colors of the mountain
- Combat crew : a true story of flying and fighting in World War II
- Combat swimmer : memoirs of a Navy SEAL
- Coming home to Jerusalem : a personal journey
- Confederate generals
- Confederate soldiers
- Consequence : a memoir
- Conundrum
- Corrie ten Boom's Prison letters
- Counting backwards : a doctor's notes on anesthesia
- Counting the days : POWs, internees, and stragglers of World War II in the Pacific
- Courage has no color : the true story of the Triple Nickles, America's first black paratroopers
- Courageous journey : walking the Lost Boys' path from the Sudan to America
- Covering catastrophe : broadcast journalists report September 11
- Cronkite's war : his World War II letters home
- Crossing
- Crossing Cairo : a Jewish woman's encounter with Egypt
- Currahee! : a Screaming Eagle at Normandy
- D-day : minute by minute
- Daily life during the Holocaust
- Darling Monster : the letters of Lady Diana Cooper to son John Julius Norwich, 1939-1952
- Dauntless helldivers : a dive-bomber pilot's epic story of the carrier battles
- Days and memory
- Days of decision : an oral history of conscientious objectors in the military during the Vietnam war
- Dear America : letters home from Vietnam
- Dear America : letters home from Vietnam
- Dear God, have you ever gone hungry? : memoirs
- Dear Miss Breed : true stories of the Japanese American incarceration during World War II and a librarian who made a difference
- Dear Mrs. Roosevelt : letters from children of the Great Depression
- Dear Mrs. Roosevelt : letters to Eleanor Roosevelt through depression and war
- 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 dealer : the memoirs of the SS Kommandant at Auschwitz
- Death march : the survivors of Bataan
- Defy the darkness : a tale of courage in the shadow of Mengele
- Delta Force : a memoir by the founder of the U.S. military's most secretive special-operations unit
- Devil at my heels
- Diario clandestino, 1943-1945
- Diario de Ana Frank
- Diary from the years of occupation, 1939-44
- Diary of a Union lady, 1861-1865.
- Diary of a political idiot : normal life in Belgrade
- Diary of a witness : 1940-1943
- Discovering Dominga
- Dispatches
- Divided lives : the untold stories of Jewish-Christian women in Nazi Germany
- Do no harm : stories of life, death, and brain surgery
- Doctor #117641 : a Holocaust memoir
- Don't let's go to the dogs tonight : an African childhood
- Don't you know there's a war on?
- Doomed in Afghanistan : a UN officer's memoir of the fall of Kabul and Najibullah's escape, 1992
- Doonesbury.com's The sandbox : dispatches from troops in Iraq and Afghanistan
- Doughboys on the Western Front : memories of American soldiers in the Great War
- Dreams in a time of war : a childhood memoir
- Dreams of trespass : tales of a harem girlhood
- Dunkirk
- Dust to dust : a memoir
- Duty : memoirs of a Secretary at war
- Duty : memoirs of a secretary at war
- Eat the apple : a memoir
- Echoes of World War II
- El diario de Ana Frank
- Eleanor's story : an American girl in Hitler's Germany
- Elihu Washburne : the diary and letters of America's minister to France during the Siege and Commune of Paris
- End of a Berlin diary
- Enemy combatant : my imprisonment at Guant?namo, Bagram, and Kandahar
- England's hour,
- Escape from China : the long journey from Tiananmen to freedom
- Escape or die : true stories of young people who survived the Holocaust
- Escape through the Pyrenees
- Europa Europa
- Europa, Europa
- Eva's story : a survivor's tale
- Evader : the classic true story of escape and evasion behind enemy lines
- Even silence has an end : my six years of captivity in the Colombian jungle
- Everything we had : an oral history of the Vietnam War
- Execution by hunger : the hidden holocaust
- Exit Berlin : how one woman saved her family from Nazi Germany
- 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, 1954-1965
- Eyewitness Auschwitz : three years in the gas chambers
- Eyewitness D-Day : firsthand accounts from the landing at Normandy to the liberation of Paris
- Eyewitness to Gettysburg : the story of Gettysburg as told by the leading correspondent of his day
- Eyewitness to infamy : an oral history of Pearl Harbor
- Eyewitness to the Civil War : the complete history from secession to reconstruction
- Facing the wall : Americans at the Vietnam veterans memorial
- Far from home : a documentary
- Farewell to Prague
- Father, soldier, son : memoir of a platoon leader in Vietnam
- Fear and loathing in Las Vegas : a savage journey to the heart of the American dream
- Fields of fury : the American Civil War
- Fighter
- Fighter pilot : the memoirs of legendary ace Robin Olds
- Fighting Warsaw : the story of the Polish underground state, 1939-1945
- Fire and movement : the British Expeditionary Force and the campaign of 1914
- Firestorm at Gettysburg : civilian voices
- First Manassas
- First in : an insider's account of how the CIA spearheaded the war on terror in Afghanistan
- Flares of memory : stories of childhood during the Holocaust
- Flight to Arras
- Flights of passage : reflections of a World War II aviator
- Flory : a miraculous story of survival
- Flying MacArthur to victory
- Flying through midnight : a pilot's dramatic story of his secret missions over Laos during the Vietnam War
- Fools rush in
- Footnotes in Gaza
- For love & liberty : the untold Civil War story of Major Sullivan Ballou & his famous love letter
- For those I loved
- For us the living : the Civil War in paintings and eyewitness accounts
- Forget-me-not : memories of Germany (1939-46)
- Forgotten survivors : Polish Christians remember the Nazi occupation
- Founding fathers
- Four letters to the witnesses of my childhood
- Four perfect pebbles : a Holocaust story
- Four years in the mountains of Kurdistan, 1915-1919 : an Armenian boy's memoir of survival
- Fragments of Isabella : a memoir of Auschwitz
- Francotirador : la autobiograf?a del francotirador m?s letal en la historia de Estados Unidos de Am?rica
- Frederic Remington and the Spanish-American War
- From Anzio to the Alps : an American soldier's story
- From Baghdad, with love : a Marine, the war, and a dog named Lava
- From Chicago to Vietnam : a memoir of war
- From Love Field : our final hours with President John F. Kennedy
- From a silk cocoon
- From a surgeon's journal, 1915-1918,
- From ashes to life : my memories of the Holocaust
- From broken glass : my story of finding hope in Hitler's death camps to inspire a new generation
- From slave to abolitionist : the life of William Wells Brown
- From the ashes of Sobibor : a story of survival
- Full battle rattle : my story as the longest-serving special forces A-Team soldier in American history
- Generation kill : Devil Dogs, Iceman, Captain America, and the new face of American war
- German boy : a refugee's story
- German voices : memories of life during Hitler's Third Reich
- Ghosts and shadows : a marine in Vietnam, 1968-1969
- Ghosts of war : the true story of a 19-year-old GI
- Gifts from the enemy
- Given up for dead : American GI's in the Nazi concentration camp at Berga
- Go for broke : a pictorial history of the Japanese American 100th Infantry Battalion and the 442d Regimental Combat Team
- Going downtown : the war against Hanoi and Washington
- Going solo
- Good people in an evil time : portraits of complicity and resistance in the Bosnian War
- Good-bye to all that
- Goodbye, darkness : a memoir of the Pacific War
- Gray work : confessions of an American paramilitary spy
- Great battles of World War I : in the air
- Growing up in the Civil War, 1861 to 1865
- Guests of the Ayatollah : the first battle in America's war with militant Islam
- Gunner with Stonewall; : reminiscences of William Thomas Poague, a memoir, written for his children in 1903.
- Haiti after the shock
- Hamburger Hill, May 11-20, 1969
- Hammer from above : marine air combat over Iraq
- Hammerhead Six : how Green Berets waged an unconventional war against the Taliban to win in Afghanistan's deadly Pech Valley
- Hanged at Auschwitz : an extraordinary memoir of survival
- Hard men humble : Vietnam veterans who wouldn't come home
- Hard times : an oral history of the great depression
- Hasidic tales of the Holocaust
- Haunted memories : portraits of women in the Holocaust
- He sets the captive free
- Healing children : a surgeon's stories from the frontiers of pediatric medicine
- Hearts grown brutal : sagas of Sarajevo
- Hearts touched by fire : the best of battles and leaders of the Civil War
- Helga's diary : a young girl's account of life in a concentration camp
- Heroes of the Holocaust
- Hidden child
- Hidden like Anne Frank : fourteen true stories of survival
- Hidden on the mountain : stories of children sheltered from the Nazis in le Chambon
- Hideous dream : a soldier's memoir of the US invasion of Haiti
- Hiding and seeking : faith & tolerance after the Holocaust
- Hiding to survive : stories of Jewish children rescued from the Holocaust
- High honor : recollections by men and women of World War II aviation
- Hiroshima diary : the journal of a Japanese physician, August 6-September 30, 1945
- History of a disappearance : the story of a forgotten Polish town
- Hitler's forgotten children : a true story of the Lebensborn program and one woman's search for her real identity
- Hitler's last witness : the memoir of Hitler's bodyguard
- Hitler, my neighbor : memories of a Jewish childhood, 1929-1939
- Hitler: the last ten days
- Hitlerland : American eyewitnesses to the Nazi rise to power
- Holocaust odysseys : the Jews of Saint-Martin-V?subie and their flight through France and Italy
- Homage to Catalonia
- Homage to Catalonia ; : Down and out in Paris and London
- Horse soldiers : the extraordinary story of a band of U.S. soldiers who rode to victory in Afghanistan
- Horse soldiers : the extraordinary story of a band of U.S. soldiers who rode to victory in Afghanistan
- Hostage to war : a true story
- How I raised myself from failure to success in selling
- How dark the heavens : 1400 days in the grip of Nazi terror
- How it happened : documenting the tragedy of Hungarian Jewry
- Hunter killer : inside America's unmanned air war
- Hunters and shooters : an oral history of the U.S. Navy SEALs in Vietnam
- Hunting the truth : memoirs of Beate and Serge Klarsfeld
- Hurricane street
- I am a star--child of the Holocaust
- I await the devil's coming
- I dream of peace : images of war by children of former Yugoslavia
- I have lived a thousand years : growing up in the Holocaust
- I heard my country calling : a memoir
- I know why the caged bird sings
- I lost my love in Baghdad : a modern war story
- I love a man in uniform : a memoir of love, war and other battles
- I remember nothing more : the Warsaw Children's Hospital and the Jewish resistance
- I shall live : surviving against all odds, 1939-1945
- I will plant you a lilac tree : a memoir of a Schindler's list survivor
- If I die in a combat zone, box me up and ship me home
- If not now, when? : duty and sacrifice in America's time of need
- If you could be my friend : letters of Mervet Akram Sha'ban and Galit Fink
- Images from the storm : 300 Civil War images by the author of Eye of the storm
- In Nixon's web : a year in the crosshairs of Watergate
- In command of history : Churchill fighting and writing the Second World War
- In my brother's shadow : a life and death in the SS
- In my hands : [memories of a Holocaust rescuer]
- In my hands : memories of a Holocaust rescuer
- In search of enemies : a CIA story
- In session : the bond between women and their therapists
- In the Warsaw Ghetto : summer 1941
- In the bunker with Hitler : 23 July 1944-29 April 1945
- In the camps : teens who survived the Nazi concentration camps
- In the combat zone : an oral history of American women in Vietnam, 1966-1975
- In the company of heroes
- In the footsteps of the Band of Brothers : [a return to Easy Company's battlefields with Sergeant Forrest Guth]
- In the ghettos : teens who survived the ghettos of the Holocaust
- In the house of my Bibi : growing up in revolutionary Iran
- In the mouth of the wolf
- In the shadow of the Ayatollah : a CIA hostage in Iran
- In wartime : stories from Ukraine
- Incoming : veteran writers on returning home
- Indestructible : the unforgettable story of a marine hero at Iwo Jima
- Inherit the truth : a memoir of survival and the Holocaust
- Inheriting the war : poetry and prose by descendants of Vietnam veterans and refugees
- Inside the Hotel Rwanda : the surprising true story... and why it matters today
- Inside the concentration camps : eyewitness accounts of life in Hitler's death camps
- Integrity : good people, bad choices, and life lessons from the White House
- Intimate voices from the First World War
- Into the fire : a firsthand account of the most extraordinary battle in the Afghan War
- Into the green : a reconnaissance by fire
- Into the inferno : the memoir of a Jewish paratrooper behind Nazi lines
- Intrepid birdmen : the fighter pilots of World War I
- IraqiGirl : diary of a teenage girl in Iraq
- It is a good day to die : Indian eyewitnesses tell the story of the Battle of the Little Bighorn
- It's my country too : women's military stories from the American Revolution to Afghanistan
- Iwo Jima : World War II veterans remember the greatest battle of the Pacific
- Jack and Rochelle : a Holocaust story of love and resistance
- Japan at war : an oral history
- Jarhead : a Marine's chronicle of the Gulf War and other battles
- John Washington's Civil War : a slave narrative
- Joker one : a Marine platoon's story of courage, leadership, and brotherhood
- Joseph Anton : [a memoir]
- Joseph Anton : a memoir
- Journal
- Journal of a revolutionary war woman
- Journey through the night : Jakob Littner's Holocaust memoir
- Journey to a revolution : a