personal narratives, american

A personal memoir of the author while serving in the Pacific during World War II as a foot soldier in the Marines.

A collection of firsthand accounts that describe the 1943 United States military campaign to retake Attu Island from Japanese troops that had invaded the island in 1942.

James Brady chronicles the experiences he had when he returned to North Korea nearly fifty years after he fought there as a young lieutenant of Marines, describing the painful memories his travels brought back and the healing that came with it.

Describes the experiences of the men assigned to infantry rifle platoons during World War II.

Tells the story of Jack Lucas, who fraudulently joined the U.S. Marine Corps in 1942 at the age of fourteen and became the youngest recipient of the Medal of Honor as a result of his heroic actions in the Battle of Iwo Jima three years later.

Tells the story of how Edward R. Murrow, chief European correspondent for the Columbia Broadcasting System, worked along with the band of reporters he recruited, to bring the news of World War II live to the American people, and includes excerpts from over fifty actual broadcasts on CD.

A memoir in which A. Cleveland Harrison recounts his experiences as an eighteen-year-old drafted into the army in 1943, and provides insight into the lives of ordinary soldiers who contributed so much to the war effort.