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- 100 missions north
- 102 minutes that changed America
- 13 Stradomska Street : a memoir of exile and return
- 13 hours : a firsthand account of what really happened in Benghazi
- 13 hours : the inside account of what really happened in Benghazi
- 1944 diary
- 40 thieves on Saipan : the elite marine scout-snipers in one of WWII's bloodiest battles
- 5,000 miles from home : [the untold story of Chicago's Italian Americans and World War II]
- 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
- ?TSinkovye malʹchiki
- A Doughboy with the Fighting Sixty-Ninth : a remembrance of World War I
- A Yankee private's Civil War
- A Yankee private's Civil War.
- A cure for darkness : the story of depression and how we treat it
- A diary from Dixie;
- A film unfinished
- A history of silence : a memoir
- A hundred miles of bad road : an armored cavalryman in Vietnam, 1967-68
- A journal for Jordan : a story of love and honor
- 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 people's history of the American Revolution : how common people shaped the fight for independence
- A place for us
- A place outside the law : forgotten voices from Guantánamo
- A promise to remember : the Holocaust in the words and voices of its survivors
- A soldier's sketchbook : from the front lines of World War II
- A teenager in Hitler's death camps
- A tiger among us : a story of valor in Vietnam's A Shau Valley
- A wing and a prayer : the "Bloody 100th" Bomb Group of the U.S. Eighth Air Force in action over Europe in World War II
- A wolf in the attic : the legacy of a hidden child of the Holocaust
- A woman in Berlin : eight weeks in the conquered city : a diary
- Abandoned in hell : the fight for Vietnam's Fire Base Kate
- Above the Reich : deadly dogfights, blistering bombing raids, and other war stories from the greatest American air heroes of World War II, in their own words
- Ace of aces.
- Ace! : autobiography of a fighter pilot, World War II
- Adamalui : a survivor's journey from civil wars in Africa to life in America
- After long silence : a memoir
- Alice's piano : the life of Alice Herz-Sommer
- All at sea : coming of age in World War II
- All for the Union : the Civil War diary and letters of Elisha Hunt Rhodes
- All rivers run to the sea : memoirs
- All rivers run to the sea : memoirs
- Alone : Britain, Churchill, and Dunkirk : defeat into victory
- Always faithful : a story of the war in Afghanistan, the fall of Kabul, and the unshakable bond between a Marine and an interpreter
- Always remember your name : a true story of family and survival in Auschwitz
- American daughter gone to war : on the front lines with an army nurse in Vietnam
- American shoes : a refugee's story
- 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 : the true story of a legendary Ranger
- Among heroes : a U.S. Navy SEAL's true story of friendship, heroism, and the ultimate sacrifice
- An American heroine in the French Resistance : the diary and memoir of Virginia d'Albert-Lake
- An album of memories : personal histories from the greatest generation
- An iron wind : Europe under Hitler
- Ana Frank : diario
- And no birds sang
- And still peace did not come : a memoir of reconciliation
- Angels of mercy : the Army nurses of World War II
- Anne Frank Tagebuch
- Another day in paradise
- As good as dead : the daring escape of American POWs from a Japanese death camp
- Asylum : a survivor's flight from Nazi-occupied Vienna through wartime France
- At war with the wind : the epic struggle with Japan's World War II suicide bombers
- Audacious missions of World War II : [daring acts of bravery revealed through letters and documents from the time]
- Auschwitz : a doctor's eyewitness account
- Auschwitz : a doctor's story
- Auschwitz : inside the Nazi state
- 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
- Back in the fight : the explosive memoir of a special operator who never gave up
- Bataan : a survivor's story
- Battle for Korea : the Associated Press history of the Korean conflict
- Battle hardened : an infantry officer's harrowing journey from D-Day to V-E Day
- Battle heroes : voices from Afghanistan
- Battle ready : memoir of a SEAL warrior medic
- Battleground Pacific : a Marine rifleman's combat odyssey in K/3/5
- Bedside manners : one doctor's reflections on the oddly intimate encounters between patient and healer
- Behind enemy lines : a young pilot's story
- Behind enemy lines : the true story of a French Jewish spy in Nazi Germany
- Berlin diary : the journal of a foreign correspondent, 1934-1941
- Between silk and cyanide : a codemaker's war, 1941-1945
- Beyond band of brothers : [the war memoirs of Major Dick Winters]
- Bezpański : ballada o byłym gliniarzu
- Black ops : the life of a CIA shadow warrior
- Blind spot : Hitlers secretary = Im toten : Hitler's sekretrin
- Blood : stories of life and death from the Civil War
- Blood red snow : the memoirs of a German soldier on the Eastern Front
- Bloods : black veterans of the Vietnam War : an oral history
- Bohater z cienia : losy Kazika Ratajzera
- Born on the Fourth of July
- Bounty hunter 4/3 : my life in combat from Marine Scout Sniper to MARSOC
- Brain storms : the race to unlock the mysteries of Parkinson's disease
- Bravo Company : an Afghanistan deployment and its aftermath
- Breakout : the Chosin Reservoir campaign, Korea 1950
- Bringing down Gaddafi : on the ground with the Libyan rebels
- Brothers in battle, best of friends : two WWII paratroopers from the original Band of brothers tell their story
- Brothers in war
- Brothers of the gun : a memoir of the Syrian War
- Burden of memory
- Buses are a comin' : memoir of a Freedom Rider
- By honor bound : two Navy SEALs, the Medal of Honor, and a story of extraordinary courage
- Był dom-- : wspomnienia
- Call of duty : my life before, during, and after the band of brothers
- Captured : an American prisoner of war in North Vietnam
- Carrier
- Caught in the revolution : Petrograd, Russia, 1917--a world on the edge
- Cel snajpera : historia najniebezpieczniejszego snajpera w dziejach amerykańskiej armii
- Chance : escape from the Holocaust
- Channel kindness : stories of kindness and community
- Children of the Holocaust
- Children of the flames : Dr. Josef Mengele and the untold story of the twins of Auschwitz
- Chłopiec z listy Shindlera
- Citizen soldier
- Civil warriors
- Clanlands : whisky, warfare, and a Scottish adventure like no other
- Clara's war : one girl's story of survival
- Code talker : [the first and only memoir by one of the original Navajo code talkers of WWII]
- Coffin corner boys : one bomber, ten men, and their harrowing escape from Nazi-occupied France
- Consequence : a memoir
- Conversations on dying : a palliative-care pioneer faces his own death
- Counting backwards : a doctor's notes on anesthesia
- Crimes, victims and witnesses : apartheid in Palestine
- Crisis on the border : an eyewitness account of illegal aliens, violent crime, and cartels
- Crusade in Europe
- Cry havoc : Charlottesville and American democracy under siege
- Człowiek kt?ry wkradł si? do Auschwitz
- D-Day as they saw it
- D-Day diary : life on the front line in the Second World War
- D-day : minute by minute
- D-day : the price of freedom
- Danger close : my epic journey as a combat helicopter pilot in Iraq and Afghanistan
- Dauntless helldivers : a dive-bomber pilot's epic story of the carrier battles
- Deadliest catch, Season 5
- Dear America : letters home from Vietnam
- Dear Miss Breed : true stories of the Japanese American incarceration during World War II and a librarian who made a difference
- Dear world : a Syrian girl's story of war and plea for peace
- Death traps : the survival of an American armored division in World War II
- Defending Baltimore against enemy attack : a boyhood year during World War II
- Delta Force : a memoir by the founder of the U.S. military's most secretive special-operations unit
- Desert diary : Japanese American kids behind barbed wire
- Devil at my heels
- Diario de Aurora
- Diary from the years of occupation, 1939-44
- Disguised : a teenage girl's survival in World War II Japanese prison camps
- Dispatches
- Do no harm : stories of life, death, and brain surgery
- Don't let's go to the dogs tonight : an African childhood
- Dreams in a time of war : a childhood memoir
- Dunkirk : the history behind the major motion picture
- Dunkirk : the history behind the major motion picture
- Duty : memoirs of a secretary at war
- Dziewczynka w czerwonym płaszczyku
- E.R. nurses
- ER nurses : true stories from America's greatest unsung heroes
- ER nurses : walk my rounds with me : true stories from america's greatest unsung heroes
- Easy Company soldier : the legendary battles of a sergeant from World War II's "Band of Brothers"
- Eat the apple : a memoir
- Edith's story
- Elly : my true story of the Holocaust
- Embrace fearlessly the burning world : essays
- Emergency room : lives saved and lost : doctors tell their stories
- Enola Gay : the story of the crew and the B-29 bomber that dropped the world's first atomic bomb
- Ernie's war : the best of Ernie Pyle's World War II dispatches
- Europa Europa
- Europa, Europa
- Even silence has an end : my six years of captivity in the Colombian jungle
- Every deep-drawn breath : a critical care doctor on healing, recovery, and transforming medicine in the ICU
- Every man a hero : a memoir of D-Day, the first wave at Omaha Beach, and a world at war
- Extreme ownership : how U.S. Navy SEALs lead and win
- Eyewitness to World War II : unforgettable stories from history's greatest conflict
- Eyewitness to the Civil War : the complete history from secession to reconstruction
- Fading victory : the diary of Admiral Matome Ugaki, 1941-1945
- Faith still moves mountains : miraculous stories of the healing power of prayer
- Fear and loathing in Las Vegas : a savage journey to the heart of the American dream
- Fear up harsh : an Army interrogator's dark journey through Iraq
- Feather in the storm : a childhood lost in chaos
- Fields of fury : the American Civil War
- Fighter pilot : the memoirs of legendary ace Robin Olds
- Fire and ice : the Nazis' scorched earth campaign in Norway
- First in : an insider's account of how the CIA spearheaded the war on terror in Afghanistan
- Five days that shocked the world : eyewitness accounts from Europe at the end of World War II
- Floating in the deep end : how caregivers can see beyond Alzheimer's
- Flory : a miraculous story of survival
- Flying through time : a journey into history in a World War II biplane
- Footnotes in Gaza
- Fortitude : American resilience in the era of outrage
- Fortunate son : the autobiography of Lewis B. Puller, Jr
- Foxtrot in Kandahar : a memoir of a CIA Officer in Afghanistan at the inception of America's longest war
- From Chicago to Vietnam : a memoir of war
- From miniskirt to hijab : a girl in revolutionary Iran
- From war to peace in 1945 Germany : a GI's experience
- Generation kill : Devil Dogs, Iceman, Captain America, and the new face of American war
- German voices : memories of life during Hitler's Third Reich
- Ghost flames : life and death in a hidden war, Korea 1950-1953
- Ghosts of war : the true story of a 19-year-old GI
- Gift of darkness : growing up in occupied Amsterdam
- Gifts from the enemy
- Girlhood : teens around the world in their own voices
- Going solo
- Goodbye, darkness : a memoir of the Pacific War
- Greenlights
- Greenlights
- Groove interrupted : loss, renewal, and the music of New Orleans
- Growing up in the Civil War, 1861 to 1865
- Guadalcanal diary
- Guests of the Ayatollah : the first battle in America's war with militant Islam
- Hammerhead Six : how Green Berets waged an unconventional war against the Taliban to win in Afghanistan's deadly Pech Valley
- Happy hunting ground
- Happy-go-lucky
- Happy-go-lucky
- Happy-go-lucky
- Happy-go-lucky
- Hard marching every day : the Civil War letters of Private Wilbur Fisk, 1861-1865
- Hard times : an oral history of the great depression
- Haven : the dramatic story of 1,000 World War II refugees and how they came to America
- Healing children : a surgeon's stories from the frontiers of pediatric medicine
- Hear my voice : the testimonies of children detained at the southern border of the United States = Escucha mi voz : los testimonios de niños detenidos en la frontera sur de los Estados Unidos
- Heart : a history
- Helga's diary : a young girl's account of life in a concentration camp
- Hell before their very eyes : American soldiers liberate concentration camps in Germany, April 1945
- Hell in the Pacific : a Marine rifleman's journey from Guadalcanal to Peleliu
- Helmet for my pillow : from Parris Island to the Pacific : a young Marine's stirring account of combat in World War II
- Here is your war : story of G.I. Joe
- Heroes in the skies : American aviators in World War II
- Hidden child
- Hidden on the mountain : stories of children sheltered from the Nazis in le Chambon
- Hiding in plain sight : the incredible true story of a German-Jewish teenager's struggle to survive in Nazi-occupied Poland
- 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, my neighbor : memories of a Jewish childhood, 1929-1939
- Hitlerland : American eyewitnesses to the Nazi rise to power
- 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
- Hospital sketches
- House to house : an epic memoir of war
- How to starve cancer . . . and then kill it with ferroptosis
- How to treat people : a nurse's notes
- Hunter killer : inside America's unmanned air war
- Hunting the truth : memoirs of Beate and Serge Klarsfeld
- Hurricane street
- I heard my country calling : a memoir
- I marched with Patton : a firsthand account of World War II alongside one of the U.S. Army's greatest generals
- I marched with Sherman : Civil War memoirs of the 20th Illinois Volunteer Infantry
- I remember Korea : veterans tell their stories of the Korean War, 1950-53
- I, who did not die : a sweeping story of loss, redemption, and fate
- If I die in a combat zone, box me up and ship me home
- In the bunker with Hitler : 23 July 1944-29 April 1945
- In wartime : stories from Ukraine
- Indestructible : the unforgettable story of a marine hero at Iwo Jima
- Inge's war : a German woman's story of family, secrets, and survival under Hitler
- Inside the Battle of the Bulge : a private comes of age
- Intelligent love : the story of Clara Park, her autistic daughter, and the myth of the refrigerator mother
- Intimate voices from the First World War
- Into the fire : a firsthand account of the most extraordinary battle in the Afghan War
- Into the fire : a firsthand account of the most extraordinary battle in the Afghan war
- Into the inferno : the memoir of a Jewish paratrooper behind Nazi lines
- Into the rising sun : in their own words, World War II's Pacific veterans reveal the heart of combat
- Into these hands : wisdom from midwives
- Islands of the damned : a Marine at war in the Pacific
- Iwo Jima : 50 years of memories
- Iwo Jima : World War II veterans remember the greatest battle of the Pacific
- Jarhead : a Marine's chronicle of the Gulf War and other battles
- Joseph Anton : a memoir
- Journey into darkness : genocide in Rwanda
- Journey to a revolution : a personal memoir and history of the Hungarian Revolution of 1956
- Just doing my job : stories of service from World War II
- Just eat : one reporter's quest for a weight-loss regimen that works
- Kaboom : embracing the suck in a savage little war
- Kill or capture : how a special operations task force took down a notorious al Qaeda terrorist
- Klerycy : życie w polskich seminariach
- Komandos : moja służba w navy seal i strzały, które zabiły Bin Ladena
- Koshersoul : the faith and food journey of an African American Jew
- La reina del sur
- Lady Death : the memoirs of Stalin's sniper
- Lady's men : the saga of Lady Be Good and her crew : a haunting story of the Second World War
- Lakota noon : the Indian narrative of Custer's defeat
- Last days of the Nazis
- Last heroes of D-Day
- Last man down : a firefighter's story of survival and escape from the World Trade Center
- Last men out : the true story of America's heroic final hours in Vietnam
- Last stop Auschwitz : my story of survival from within the camp
- Last witnesses : an oral history of the children of World War II
- Last witnesses : reflections on the wartime internment of Japanese Americans
- Led by faith : rising from the ashes of the Rwandan genocide
- Lee's terrible swift sword : from Antietam to Chancellorsville : an eyewitness history
- Left of boom : how a young CIA case officer penetrated the Taliban and Al-Qaeda
- Leningrad 1943 : inside a city under siege
- Let me tell you a story : a memoir of a wartime childhood
- Letters from Vietnam
- Letters from the end of the world : a firsthand account of the bombing of Hiroshima
- Level Zero heroes : the story of U.S. Marine Special Operations in Bala Murghab, Afghanistan
- Liberation : stories of survival from the Holocaust
- Life and death in Shanghai
- Life on the line : stories of Vietnam air combat
- Lily's promise : holding on to hope through Auschwitz and beyond--a story for all generations
- Lily's promise : holding on to hope through Auschwitz and beyond--a story for all generations
- Lily's promise : holding on to hope through Auschwitz and beyond--a story for all generations
- Lincoln's White House secretary : the adventurous life of William O. Stoddard
- Lions of Kandahar : the story of a fight against all odds
- Living with honor
- Lone survivor
- Lone survivor
- Lone survivor : the eyewitness account of Operation Redwing and the lost heroes of SEAL Team 10
- Lone survivor : the eyewitness account of Operation Redwing and the lost heroes of SEAL team 10
- Long rifle : one man's deadly sniper missions in Iraq and Afghanistan
- Long shot : the inside story of the snipers who broke ISIS
- Loon : a Marine story
- Los bastardos de Hitler : las SS brit?nicas
- Lost in Tibet : the untold story of five American airmen, a doomed plane, and the will to survive
- Love in a torn land : Joanna of Kurdistan : the true story of a freedom fighter's escape from Iraqi vengeance
- Love in a world of sorrow : a teenage girl's Holocaust memoirs
- Love life
- Machete season : the killers in Rwanda speak : a report
- Man's search for meaning
- Marcel's letters : a font and the search for one man's fate
- Memoirs of a kamikaze : a World War II pilot's inspiring story of survival, honor and reconciliation
- Memoirs of the Second World War : an abridgement of the six volumes of the Second World War
- Midway : the battle that doomed Japan : the Japanese Navy's story
- Mission on the Ho Chi Minh trail : nature, myth, and war in Viet Nam
- Mo?ia russka?ia zhiznʹ : vospominani?ia velikosvetsko? damy, 1870-1918
- Modern warriors : real stories from real heroes
- Modern warriors : real stories from real heroes
- Murphy's law : my journey from Army Ranger and Green Beret to investigative journalist
- My Lai
- My escape from slavery
- My imaginary illness : a journey into uncertainty and prejudice in medical diagnosis
- My life as a foreign country : a memoir
- My lost brothers : the untold story by the Yarnell Hill Fire's lone survivor
- My moment : 106 women on fighting for themselves
- My name is Bana
- My name is Selma : the remarkable memoir of a Jewish resistance fighter and Ravensbrück survivor
- My private war : liberated body, captive mind : a World War II POW's journey
- My story of the war : a woman's narrative of four years personal experience as nurse in the Union army, and in relief work at home, in hospitals, camps, and at the front, during the war of the rebellion : with anecdotes, pathetic incidents, and thrilling reminiscences portraying the lights and shadows of hospital life and the sanitary service of the war
- My war
- My war : killing time in Iraq
- Nagasaki : life after nuclear war
- Naples '44
- Neizvestna?ia cherna?ia kniga : materialy k "Chernoĭ knige" pod redak?tsieĭ Vasili?ia Grossmana i Ilʹi Ėrenburga
- Neptune's inferno : the U.S. Navy at Guadalcanal
- Never again?
- Never call me a hero : a legendary American dive-bomber pilot remembers the Battle of Midway
- Never forget to lie
- Never will we forget : oral histories of World War II
- Night
- Night
- Night
- Night
- Night
- Night ; : Dawn ; Day
- No apparent distress : a doctor's coming-of-age on the front lines of American medicine
- No bended knee : the battle for Guadalcanal : the memoir of Gen. Merrill B. Twining USMC (Ret.)
- No good men among the living : America, the Taliban, and the war through Afghan eyes
- No ordinary dog : my partner from the SEAL Teams to the Bin Laden raid
- No surrender : a World War II memoir
- No turning back : life, loss, and hope in wartime Syria
- No turning back : one man's inspiring true story of courage, determination, and hope
- No, my place : reflections on sexual harassment in Illinois government and politics
- Now hear this : the story of American sailors in World War II
- Nubs : the true story of a mutt, a Marine & a miracle
- Numbered
- Ochotnik : [V Dywizja Syberyjska w nietuszowanej relacji rekruta z 1918 r.]
- Omaha Beach : D-Day, June 6, 1944
- On all fronts : the education of a journalist
- On call in hell : a doctor's Iraq War story
- On the border with Crook
- Once a warrior : how one veteran found a new mission closer to home
- One hundred Saturdays : Stella Levi and the search for a lost world
- Operation Broken Reed : Truman's secret North Korean spy mission that averted World War III
- Operation Pineapple Express : the incredible story of a group of Americans who undertook one last mission and honored a promise in Afghanistan
- Operation homecoming : Iraq, Afghanistan, and the Home Front, in the words of U.S. troops and their families
- Orchard House : how a neglected garden taught one family to grow | a memoir
- Out of captivity : surviving 1,967 days in the Colombian jungle
- Out of chaos : hidden children remember the Holocaust
- Out of the depths : an unforgettable WWII story of survival, courage, and the sinking of the USS Indianapolis
- Pale horse : hunting terrorists and commanding heroes with the 101st Airborne Division
- Palestine speaks : narratives of life under occupation
- Papillon
- Peace is a chain reaction : how World War II Japanese balloon bombs brought people of two nations together
- Peace without Hiroshima : secret action at the Vatican in the spring of 1945
- Perfectly wounded
- Perfectly wounded
- Perfectly wounded : a memoir about what happens after a miracle
- Perilous fight : America's World War II in color
- Pershing's Crusaders : the American soldier in World War I
- Pianist : neobyknovenna?ia istori?ia vyzhivani?ia v Varshave v 1939-1945 godakh
- Pogr??eni i ocaleni
- Proof of heaven : [a neurosurgeon's journey into the afterlife]
- Przetrwałam ?ycie ofiary Josefa Mengele
- Pumpkinflowers : a soldier's story
- R?sistance : a woman's journal of struggle and defiance in occupied France
- Radar : how it all began
- Radioman : an eyewitness account of Pearl Harbor and World War II in the Pacific
- Rainbow's end : a memoir of childhood, war and an African farm
- Red Platoon : a true story of American valor
- Red azalea
- Red scarf girl : a memoir of the Cultural Revolution
- Remember World War II : kids who survived tell their stories
- Remember us : my journey from the shtetl through the Holocaust
- Rena's promise : a story of sisters in Auschwitz
- Renia's diary
- Rescued from ISIS : the gripping true story of how a father saved his son
- Return from Siberia
- Return to Auschwitz : the remarkable story of a girl who survived the Holocaust
- Revenge : a story of hope
- Roar of the tiger
- Roman's journey : a memoir of survival
- Save me from myself : how I found God, quit Korn, kicked drugs, and lived to tell my story
- Saving justice : truth, transparency, and trust
- Scheisshaus luck : surviving the unspeakable in Auschwitz and Dora
- Schindler's legacy : true stories of the list survivors
- Screaming Eagle : memoirs of a B-17 group commander
- Secret missions of the Civil War : first-hand accounts by men and women who risked their lives in underground activities for the North and the South
- September 11 : an oral history
- Sergeant Rex : the unbreakable bond between a Marine and his military working dog
- Service : a Navy SEAL at war
- Seven fires : the urban infernos that reshaped America
- Seven pillars of wisdom : a triumph
- Seven roads to hell : a Screaming Eagle at Bastogne
- Shoah
- Shoot like a girl : one woman's dramatic fight in Afghanistan and on the home front
- Shooting ghosts : a U.S. Marine, a combat photographer, and their journey back from war
- Silent running : my years on a World War II attack submarine
- Sinking the Sultana : a Civil War story of imprisonment, greed, and a doomed journey home
- Sisterhood of spies : the women of the OSS
- Sisters in sorrow : voices of care in the Holocaust
- Soldier, sailor, frogman, spy, airman, gangster, kill or die
- Some girls, some hats and Hitler : a true love story rediscovered
- Somme : into the breach
- Song of survival : women interned
- Soul surfer : a true story of faith, family, and fighting to get back on the board
- Speak you also : a survivor's reckoning
- Step into liquid
- Still alive : a Holocaust girlhood remembered
- Storm of steel : [the classic memoir of World War I combat]
- Story of a secret state : my report to the world
- Striking back : a Jewish commando's war against the Nazis
- Suddenly we didn't want to die : memoirs of a World War I marine
- Suicide Charlie : a Vietnam War story
- Survival in Auschwitz : the Nazi assault on humanity
- Surviving Hitler : a boy in the Nazi death camps
- Surviving justice : America's wrongfully convicted and exonerated
- Surviving the angel of death : the story of a Mengele twin in Auschwitz
- Surviving the shark : how a brutal great white attack turned a surfer into a dedicated defender of sharks
- Survivor : Auschwitz, the Death March, and my fight for freedom
- Survivors : an oral history of the Armenian genocide
- Swansong 1945 : a collective diary of the last days of the Third Reich
- Swimming in Auschwitz : survival stories of six women
- Sybil
- Talking until nightfall : remembering Jewish Salonica, 1941-44
- Tell my sons : a father's last letters
- Tell them I didn't cry : a young journalist's story of joy, loss, and survival in Iraq
- Testament : a soldier's story of the Civil War
- Testament of youth : an autobiographical study of the years 1900 - 1925
- Thank you for my service
- The 188th Crybaby Brigade : a skinny Jewish kid from Chicago fights Hezbollah : a memoir
- The American GI in Europe in World War II : the march to D-Day
- The Bedford boys : one American town's ultimate D-Day sacrifice
- The Buchenwald report
- The Civil War : the first year told by those who lived it
- The Civil War chronicle : the only day-by-day portrait of America's tragic conflict as told by soldiers, journalists, politicians, farmers, nurses, slaves, and other eyewitnesses
- The Civil War diary quilt : [121 stories and the quilt blocks they inspired]
- The Civil War memories of Elizabeth Bacon Custer : reconstructed from her diaries and notes
- The German aces speak : World War II through the eyes of four of the Luftwaffe's most important commanders
- The German war : a nation under arms, 1939-1945 : citizens and soldiers
- The Great Chicago fire : in eyewitness accounts and 70 contemporary photographs and illustrations
- The Great Depression : an eyewitness history
- The Hitler kiss : a memoir of the Czech resistance
- The Johnstown flood
- The Junior Officers' Reading Club : killing time and fighting wars
- The Lisbon route : entry and escape in Nazi Europe
- The Mighty Eighth : the air war in Europe as told by the men who fought it
- The Nazi officer's wife : how one Jewish woman survived the Holocaust
- The Nazis knew my name : a remarkable story of survival and courage in Auschwitz
- The Office BFFs : tales of the Office from two best friends who were there
- The Peenem?nde wind tunnels : a memoir
- The Raqqa diaries : escape from "Islamic State"
- The Revolutionary War
- The Rough Riders ; : An autobiography
- The Spirit of St. Louis
- The Venlo incident : a true story of double-dealing, captivity, and a murderous Nazi plot
- The Vietnam reader : the definitive collection of American fiction and nonfiction on the war
- The annotated memoirs of Ulysses S. Grant
- The arrival : I sought God in hell
- The beauty and the sorrow : an intimate history of the First World War
- The best of me
- The best of me
- The bite of the mango
- The bomber boys : heroes who flew the B-17s in World War II
- The bomber boys : heroes who flew the B-17s in World War II
- 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 of '67 : Charlie Company's war in Vietnam
- The brigade : an epic story of vengeance, salvation, and World War II
- The bug girl : (a true story)
- The burning of the world : a memoir of 1914
- The choice : embrace the possible
- The chosen few : a company of paratroopers and its heroic struggle to survive in the mountains of Afghanistan
- The color of courage : a boy at war : the World War II diary of Julian Kulski
- The courage to choose : an American nun's story
- The crane wife : a memoir in essays
- The crossing : my journey to the shattered heart of Syria
- The cultural revolution : a people's history, 1962-1976
- The daughter of Auschwitz : my story of resilience, survival, and hope
- The deepest South of all : true stories from Natchez, Mississippi
- The deserter's tale : the story of an ordinary soldier who walked away from the war in Iraq
- The diary keepers : ordinary people, extraordinary times
- The diary of Anne Frank
- The diary of Anne Frank
- 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 endless steppe : growing up in Siberia
- The enormous room
- The fifth act : America's end in Afghanistan
- The fighters
- The fighters : Americans in combat in Afghanistan and Iraq
- The final mission of Bottoms Up : a World War II pilot's story
- The flamboya tree : memories of a mother's wartime courage
- The forger
- The fox hunt : a refugee's memoir of coming to America
- The gift : 12 lessons to save your life
- The gift of forgiveness : inspiring stories from those who have overcome the unforgivable
- The gift of valor : a war story
- The girl in the green sweater : a life in Holocaust's shadow
- The girl in the red coat : a memoir
- The girl with the white flag : an inspiring story of love and courage in war time
- The girls of Room 28 : friendship, hope, and survival in Theresienstadt
- The good man of Nanking : the diaries of John Rabe
- The good occupation : American soldiers and the hazards of peace
- The great escape
- The great escape
- The greatest generation speaks : letters and reflections
- The hidden children
- The hiding place
- The hiding place
- The knock at the door : a journey through the darkness of the Armenian genocide
- The last fighter pilot : the true story of the final combat mission of World War II
- The last fighting Tommy : the life of Harry Patch, the oldest surviving veteran of the trenches
- The last of the doughboys : the forgotten generation and their forgotten world war
- The last seven months of Anne Frank
- The last train from Hiroshima : the survivors look back
- The last true story I'll ever tell : an accidental soldier's account of the war in Iraq
- The liberators : America's witnesses to the Holocaust
- The life of Billy Yank : the common soldier of the Union
- The life of Johnny Reb, the common soldier of the Confederacy,
- The light of days : the untold story of women resistance fighters in Hitler's ghettos
- The light of days : the untold story of women resistance fighters in Hitler's ghettos
- The light of days : the untold story of women resistance fighters in Hitler's ghettos
- The long road home : a story of war and family
- The long road home : the aftermath of the Second World War
- The long walk : a story of war and the life that follows
- The longest kill : the story of Maverick 41, one of the world's greatest snipers
- The majestic twelve : the true story of the most feared combat escort unit in Baghdad
- The man who broke into Auschwitz : a true story of World War II
- The man who never was.
- The march up : taking Baghdad with the 1st Marine Division
- The medic : life and death in the last days of WWII
- The mirror test : America at war in Iraq and Afghanistan
- The morning they came for us : dispatches from Syria
- The most fearful ordeal : original coverage of the Civil War
- The movement made us : a father, a son, and the legacy of a freedom ride
- The museum of whales you will never see : and other excursions to Iceland's most unusual museums
- The naked don't fear the water : an underground journey with Afghan refugees
- The next pandemic : on the front lines against humankind's gravest dangers
- The nine lives of curious Edith
- The nurses : a year of secrets, drama, and miracles with the heroes of the hospital
- The office BFFs : tales of The office from two best friends who were there
- The other veterans of World War II : stories from behind the front lines
- The pianist : the extraordinary true story of one man's survival in Warsaw, 1939-1945
- The prisoner in his palace : Saddam Hussein, his American guards, and what history leaves unsaid
- The quiet hero : the untold Medal of Honor story of George E. Wahlen at the battle for Iwo Jima
- The railway man
- The railway man
- The real war : the classic reporting on the Vietnam War with a new essay
- The reaper : autobiography of one of the deadliest special ops snipers
- The red circle : my life in the Navy Seal Sniper Corps and how I trained America's deadliest marksmen
- The remains of Company D : a story of the Great War
- The righteous among the nations
- The road to Arnhem : a Screaming Eagle in Holland
- The road to Katyn : a soldier's story
- The scariest place in the world
- The sea hawks : with the PT boats at war
- The seamstress : [a memoir of survival]
- The shallow graves of Rwanda
- The shift : one nurse, twelve hours, four patients' lives