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Various diaries, letters, and other manuscripts chronicle the experiences of Octavian, a young African American, as he is brought up as part of a science experiment in the years leading up to and during the Revolutionary War.

A human rights activist offers a firsthand account of war from the perspective of a former child soldier, detailing the violent civil war that wracked his native Sierra Leone and the government forces that transformed a gentle young boy into a killer as a member of the army.

Describes what life was like for American soldiers fighting in World War I, discussing the draft, camp life, diseases, battles, and the role of women, in a book that contains many first-person accounts of the war.

A compelling compilation of previously unpublished war letters, encompassing every major conflict from the Civil War to Desert Storm, offers vivid accounts of famous battles, fierce declarations of love, reflections on the nature of warfare, and expressions of fear, loneliness, humor, patriotism, and anger during a time of war.

A pilot of a B-17 describes his successful bombing run from England to the industrial center of Germany, but things go very wrong on the return flight when his plane is struck by enemy fire and the crew is forced to parachute into Holland where the Nazis eventually capture him and send him to a prisoner of war camp.

Not all spies walk on two legs. Some of history’s most successful sleuths fly, bark, and swim. That’s right. Animals have become undercover heroes in the military, on the police force, and even in the CIA. These are their stories.

Chronicles the rise to power of Genghis Khan, one of the world’s most powerful and fearsome rulers, from his tragic beginnings, to the murder of his father, to his legendary exploits as a feared warrior who conquered much of the known world.

A full-length illustrated graphic memoir about the author and her mother’s escape on foot from the Nazi invasion of Budapest recounts how they faked their deaths, abandoned their belongings and loved ones, and fled in disguise with German troops close behind.

As thirteen-year-old Azad tries desperately to cling to the life he has known, the political situation in Iran during the war with Iraq finally forces his family to flee their home and seek safety elsewhere.

After her grandfather commits suicide, Tamar inherits a box with a series of clues and coded messages, which leads her to another Tamar, a World War II British spy—a man involved in the terrifying world of resistance fighters in Nazi-occupied Holland some fifty years before.

Despite being the son of a chieftain and a princess, fourteen-year-old Halfdan lives as a slave in Denmark in A.D. 845 but through a tragic bargain he gains his freedom and sets out to claim his birthright.