One of the most prominent works of Holocaust literature and based on his own experiences, Elie Wiesel presents the story of fourteen-year-old Eliezer, who traveled with the Jews of Sighet to Auschwitz, a Nazi concentration camp. From cattle cars to the crematory, the Jewish victims were overwhelmed by atrocities, filled with hopelessness, and pushed to wonder how people could commit such monstrous crimes.

"The first middle-grade book from a picture book master-a harrowing, heartrending, illustrated account of his childhood escape from the terrors of war"--

Remembered by history as the first modern general, William Tecumseh Sherman wrote his Memoirs ten years after the end of the Civil War. It served as a personal account of his experiences as a powerful Union general, and also as a history of the events that had taken place since the beginning of the Mexican War in 1846. He later reflected on his intentions in writing these Memoirs, stating his wish "to be a witness on the stand before the great tribunal...

Chronicles the firsthand experiences of a paratrooper who survived the Allied Invasion of Normandy and escaped imprisonment in a Nazi work camp before making his way to freedom.

"The Aimless Life is a historical memoir that tells the story of Leonard Worcester, Jr. and provides a clear example of the capitalist development of the American West and borderlands regions in the second half of the nineteenth century and early twentieth century"--