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- Relinquished, the politics of adoption and the privilege of American motherhood, Gretchen Sisson
- Vietnam's unseen war, pictures from the other side, MSNBC and National Geographic Television ; producer, David Clark, Brian Breger ; writer, Brian Breger
- Testament, a soldier's story of the Civil War, Benson Bobrick
- Anne Frank, the book, the life, the afterlife, Francine Prose
- The long road home, the aftermath of the Second World War, Ben Shephard
- Josie Underwood's Civil War diary, edited by Nancy Disher Baird ; foreword by Catherine Coke Shick
- Lakota noon, the Indian narrative of Custer's defeat, Gregory F. Michno
- Man's search for meaning, Viktor E. Frankl ; part one translated by Ilse Lasch ; foreword by Harold S. Kushner ; afterword by William J. Winslade
- The man who never was., With a foreword by Lord Ismay
- The war dispatches of Stephen Crane., Edited by R.W. Stallman and E.R. Hagemann
- The Blue and the Gray, the story of the Civil War as told by participants, edited by Henry Steele Commager
- Why we lost, a general's inside account of the Iraq and Afghanistan Wars, Daniel Bolger
- Groove interrupted, loss, renewal, and the music of New Orleans, Keith Spera
- The Revolution remembered, eyewitness accounts of the war for independence, edited by John C. Dann
- Seasons in hell, understanding Bosnia's war, Ed Vulliamy
- Guests of the Ayatollah, the first battle in America's war with militant Islam, Mark Bowden
- Doughboys on the Western Front, memories of American soldiers in the Great War, Aaron Barlow, editor
- The lost boy, a foster child's search for the love of a family, Dave Pelzer
- The French Revolution and Napoleon, an eyewitness history, Joe H. Kirchberger
- Swansong 1945, a collective diary of the last days of the Third Reich, Walter Kempowski ; translated from the German by Shaun Whiteside
- The ground truth, Focus Features presents ; a Ground Truth production in association with Radioaktive Film and Plum Pictures ; produced and directed by Patricia Foulkrod
- The Buchenwald report, translated, edited, and with an introduction by David A. Hackett ; foreword by Frederick A. Praeger
- Journal of the Waterloo campaign, kept throughout the campaign of 1815., With an introd. by Michael Glover
- The Choice of a Lifetime, Returning from the Brink of Suicide, produced and directed by Nila Bogue
- For cause and comrades, why men fought in the Civil War, James M. McPherson
- Nagasaki, life after nuclear war, Susan Southard
- The diary of a young girl, translated from the Dutch by B.M. Mooyaart-Doubleday, with an introduction by Eleanor Roosevelt
- "The good war", an oral history of World War Two, Studs Terkel
- Auschwitz, true tales from a grotesque land, Sara Nomberg-Przytyk ; translated by Roslyn Hirsch ; edited by Eli Pfefferkorn and David H. Hirsch
- The dentist of Auschwitz, a memoir, Benjamin Jacobs
- Recipes remembered, a celebration of survival : the remarkable stories and authentic recipes of Holocaust survivors, [compiled by] June Feiss Hersh
- Citizen 13660, drawings and text by Miné Okubo ; with a new introduction by Christine Hong
- The nine lives of Pakistan, dispatches from a precarious state, Declan Walsh
- The beauty and the sorrow, an intimate history of the First World War, by Peter Englund
- Bend, not break, a life in two worlds, Ping Fu with MeiMei Fox
- There was a country, a personal history of Biafra, Chinua Achebe
- Survivor, Auschwitz, the death march, and my fight for freedom, Sam Pivnik
- Written in memory, portraits of the Holocaust, photographs by Jeffrey A. Wolin ; introduction by Charles Stainback
- Witness to the Holocaust, Michael Berenbaum, [editor]
- Hard times, an oral history of the great depression, Studs Terkel
- Survival in Auschwitz, the Nazi assault on humanity, Primo Levi ; translated from the Italian by Stuart Woolf ; including "A conversation with Primo Levi by Philip Roth."
- The Cultural Revolution, a people's history, 1962-1976, Frank Dikötter
- This was Andersonville, the true story of Andersonville Military Prison as told in the personal recollections of John McElroy, sometime private, Co. L, 16th Illinois Cavalry, Edited with an introduction by Roy Meredith ; illustrated by Arthur C. Butts, IV
- A volunteer's adventures;, a Union captain's record of the Civil War,, by John William De Forest. Edited, with notes, by James H. Croushore. With an introd. by Stanley T. Williams
- Rwanda means the universe, a native's memoir of blood and bloodlines, Louise Mushikiwabo and Jack Kramer
- Machete season, the killers in Rwanda speak : a report, by Jean Hatzfeld ; translated from the French by Linda Coverdale ; preface by Susan Sontag
- Inside the concentration camps, eyewitness accounts of life in Hitler's death camps, compiled by Eugène Aroneanu ; translated by Thomas Whissen
- Caught in the revolution, Petrograd, Russia, 1917--a world on the edge, Helen Rappaport
- The First World War, an eyewitness history, Joe H. Kirchberger
- Military journal of the American Revolution
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