personal narratives, american

Seiichi Higashide recounts the experiences he had in a United States concentration camp during World War II, and discusses how the experience has shaped every aspect of his life since then.

A war-time memoir of Major Dick Winters, who assumed command of Easy Company, known as the "Band of Brothers, " when they parachuted into France on D-Day, and describes their trek across Europe, the Battle of the Bulge, liberation of concentration camps, and capture of Hitler's alpine retreat.

Laura Blumenfeld chronicles her own desire for revenge against the terrorist who shot her father more than ten years ago and recounts the stories and methods of avengers worldwide.

A memoir in which Grace Porter, a twenty-one-year-old teacher in 1942, tells about her adventures after she volunteered to join the Women's Army Corps and was sent overseas to serve as a cryptographic technician stationed in London.

A Japanese artist illustrates and narrates her experiences in the Japanese internment camps where 110,000 people of Japanese descent were held in the U.S. during World War II.

The true story of one young man's year as a Marine lieutenant in Vietnam.

During the early war years, 11,000 persons of Japanese ancestry, most of them American citizens, were interned in ten relocation centers. The largest of these was Manzanar, which was bounded by barbed wire and guard towers. There, they waited for the war to end so they could resume their lives.

Chris Kyle, a Navy SEAL, recounts his life and military experiences, discusses his record for the most career sniper kills in United States military history and the bounty placed on his head by Iraqi insurgents, provides an eye-witness account of war in Iraq, shares the strains of war on his marriage and family, and honors his fellow soldiers.

Tells the true story of a dog named Lava, who was rescued from an abandoned house in Fallujah, Iraq, cared for by the Marines who found him, and eventually permitted to come to the United States.