Personal narratives
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November 1942: An Intimate History of the Turning Point of World War II
$32.00 Add to cartThe New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice – An intimate history of the most important month of World War II, completely based on the diaries, letters and memoirs of the people who lived through i… [more below]
- Author: Englund, Peter
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 496
- Publish Date: November 21 2023
- ISBN10: 1524733318
- Language: English
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Vietnam Combat: Firefights and Writing History
$37.95 Read moreFinalist, 2023 Army Historical Foundation Distinguished Writing Awards
Finalist, War & Military, 2023 Foreword INDIES Book of the Year Awards
Winner, Military Nonfiction, 2023 NYC Big Book Awards
2nd Pla… [more below]- Author: Bartlett, Robin
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: January 05 2023
- ISBN10: 1636242421
- Language: English
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My Three Dads: Patriarchy on the Great Plains
$19.00 Read moreSharp and thought-provoking, this memoir-meets-cultural criticism upends the romanticism of the Great Plains and the patriarchy at the core of its ideals.
For many Americans, Kansas represents a visi- Author: Crispin, Jessa
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: August 16 2022
- ISBN10: 0226820106
- Language: English
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Navy Dog: A Dog’s Days in the US Navy
$28.00 Read moreWinner of the 2023 Gold Medal for the Military Writers Association of America for Memoirs/Biography
Navy Dog is a one-of-a-kind love story between a salty, battle-ready U.S. Navy crew and a little orp- Author: Kusumoto, Neal J.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: April 25 2023
- ISBN10: 1637587732
- Language: English
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Huracán: Mi Historia de Resiliencia
$7.95 Add to cartIn 2017, less than three weeks after Salvador Gómez-Colón’s fifteenth birthday, Puerto Rico was struck by a historic Category 4 hurricane. Residents were completely caught in the dark; news about Hu
- Series: I, Witness
- Author: Gómez-Colón, Salvador
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: August 08 2023
- ISBN10: 1324052708
- Language: Spanish
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Unexpected Bride in the Promised Land: Journeys in Palestine and Israel
$19.95 Add to cartAfter hitchhiking from Paris to Jerusalem, Jordan in 1967, Iris Keltz had to wait three days for permission to cross a U.N. checkpoint into Jerusalem, Israel. That was enough time for this young Jewis
- Author: Keltz, Iris
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 312
- Publish Date: February 20 2017
- ISBN10: 0986270695
- Language: English
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These Chains Will Be Broken: Palestinian Stories of Struggle and Defiance in Israeli Prisons
$24.95 Read moreHundreds of thousands of Palestinians have experienced life in Israel’s prisons since 1967, as did many more in previous decades during the course of the ongoing Israeli military occupation. Yet rarel… [more below]
- Author: Baroud, Ramzy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 204
- Publish Date: December 20 2019
- ISBN10: 1949762092
- Language: English
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Life on the Run: One Family’s Search for Peace in War-Torn Ukraine
$26.95 Read moreAn intensely personal story from Ukrainian writer Sergey Maidukov that Kirkus Reviews says is “affecting” and a “moving look at a deeply riven Russian-Ukrainian family and how they rejected Russian ag
- Author: Maidukov, Sergey
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 280
- Publish Date: March 19 2024
- ISBN10: 1538185733
- Language: English
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Storm in the Land of Rain: A Mother’s Dying Wish Becomes Her Daughter’s Nightmare
$16.99 Read moreAn award-winning journalist discovers that her grandfather, the legendary and heroic Lithiuanian “General Storm” who survived a Nazi concentration camp only to later be executed by the Russians, may a… [more below]
- Author: Foti, Silvia
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: June 07 2022
- ISBN10: 1684513022
- Language: English
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A Hangman’s Diary: The Journal of Master Franz Schmidt, Public Executioner of Nuremberg, 1573-1617
$16.99 Add to cartNow an esoteric of legal and criminal history, A Hangman’s Diary gives a year-by-year breakdown on all of Master Franz Schmidt’s executions, which included hangings, beheadings, and other methods, as … [more below]
- Author: Schmidt, Franz
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 280
- Publish Date: February 03 2015
- ISBN10: 1629144800
- Language: English
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I Will Show You How It Was: The Story of Wartime Kyiv
$28.99 Read more“A story of searing clarity from Ukraine’s frontlines of an unfathomably resilient, freedom loving people who refuse to bend to Putin’s assault on truth and human life.”–Nicole Perlroth
“Destined to b- Author: Ponomarenko, Illia
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: May 07 2024
- ISBN10: 1639733876
- Language: English
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Absolute Zero
$24.99 Add to cartThe book is a first person account of a soldier’s journey, and is based on Artem Chekh’s diary that he wrote while and after his service in the war in Donbas. One of the most important messages the bo
- Author: Chekh, Artem
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: July 07 2020
- ISBN10: 191289467X
- Language: English
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How War Begins: Dispatches from the Ukrainian Invasion
$29.99 Add to cart“The collapsing bodies look like marionettes. The clouds of dust captured by drones have a surreal beauty. The crumpling buildings look like houses of cards. Even so, it’s upsetting, panic-inducing. H… [more below]
- Author: Igort
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 168
- Publish Date: March 26 2024
- ISBN10: 1683969243
- Language: English
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The Cave: A Secret Underground Hospital and One Woman’s Story of Survival in Syria
$30.00 Read moreThis searing memoir tells the story of a young doctor and activist who ran an underground hospital in Damascus, humanizing the enduring crisis in Syria.
Simply put, there is no one in Syria with a sto- Author: Ballour, Amani
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: March 05 2024
- ISBN10: 1426222742
- Language: English
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The Gift of Forgiveness: Inspiring Stories from Those Who Have Overcome the Unforgivable
$18.00 Read moreAN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER!
“[The Gift of Forgiveness] will spark conversations across families, across friendships, at workplaces, everywhere.”—Maria Shriver A fresh, inspiring book on lea- Author: Schwarzenegger Pratt, Katherine
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: March 30 2021
- ISBN10: 1984878271
- Language: English
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Tower Stories: An Oral History of 9/11 (20th Anniversary Commemorative Edition)
$27.95 Add to cartDamon DiMarco’s Tower Stories: An Oral History of 9/11 (20th Anniversary Commemorative Edition), eternally preserves a monumental tragedy in American history through the voices of the people who were … [more below]
- Author: DiMarco, Damon
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 552
- Publish Date: August 17 2021
- ISBN10: 1595801022
- Language: English
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The Diary Keepers: World War II in the Netherlands, as Written by the People Who Lived Through It
$32.50 Read moreA riveting look at the story of World War II and the Holocaust through the diaries of Dutch citizens, firsthand accounts of ordinary people living through extraordinary times
Based on select writings
- Author: Siegal, Nina
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 544
- Publish Date: February 21, 2023
- ISBN10: 0063070650
- Language: English
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Spectrums: Autistic Transgender People in Their Own Words
$21.95 Add to cartWritten by autistic trans people from around the world, this vital and intimate collection of personal essays reveals the struggles and joys of living at the intersection of neurodivergence and gender
- Author: Sparrow, Maxfield
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: September 21 2020
- ISBN10: 1787750140
- Language: English
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Red Memory: The Afterlives of China’s Cultural Revolution
$29.95 Add to cart“It is impossible to understand China today without understanding the Cultural Revolution,” Tania Branigan writes. During this decade of Maoist fanaticism between 1966 and 1976, children turned on par
- Author: Branigan, Tania
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: January 01, 1970
- ISBN10: 1324051957
- Language: English
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One Hundred Saturdays: Stella Levi and the Search for a Lost World
$28.00 Add to cartOne of Wall Street Journal‘s Ten Best Books of the Year * Winner of the National Jewish Book Awards for Holocaust Memoir and Sephardic Culture * Recipient of the Jewish Book Council’s Natan Notable Bo
- Author: Frank, Michael
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: September 06, 2022
- ISBN10: 198216722X
- Language: English
