I am not a great or important personage, but this will be the diary of an ordinary person's life in war time. Though I may never live to read it again, perhaps it may not prove altogether uninteresting as a record of my life - or rather the life of a girl in her youth, upon whom life has shone very brightly, who has had every opportunity of education, interest, travel and pleasure and excitement, and who at the beginning of this war found herself...

The long-hidden diary of a young Polish woman's last days during the Holocaust, translated for the first time into English, with a foreword from American Holocaust historian Deborah Lipstadt. Renia Spiegel was a young girl from an upper-middle class Jewish family living on an estate in Stawki, Poland, near what was at that time the border with Romania. In the summer of 1939, Renia and her sister Elizabeth (nee Ariana) were visiting their grandparents...

En route to battle, a Confederate soldier and a Union soldier both make daily entries in small, leather-bound diaries. Historian Mark Nesbitt places their writings into the context of the Civil War.

Anne Frank's diary is among the most enduring documents of the twentieth century and one of the most beloved autobiographies of all time. Since it's publication in 1947, it has been read by millions of people all over the world-a cherished and greatly admired testament to the indestructible nature of the human spirit in the face of the worst horror that the modern world has seen. The diary captures the remarkable spirit of Anne Frank, who remained...

An inspiring memoir of resilience by a young survivor of the war in Ukraine, as told through her diary entries {u2014} a harrowing and ultimately hopeful survival story. Yeva Skalietska's story begins on her twelfth birthday in Kharkiv, where she has been living with her grandmother since she was a baby. Ten days later, the only life she'd ever known was shattered. On February 24, 2022, her city was suddenly under attack as Russia launched its horrifying...

"An unprecedented international publishing event: the first and only diary written by a still-imprisoned Guant{225}namo detainee. Since 2002, Mohamedou Slahi has been imprisoned at the detainee camp at Guant{225}namo Bay, Cuba. In all these years, the United States has never charged him with a crime. Although he was ordered released by a federal judge, the U.S. government fought that decision, and there is no sign that the United States plans to let...

The distinguished political historian's journals provide an intimate history of post-war America, the writer's contributions to multiple presidential administrations, and his relationships with numerous cultural and intellectual figures.