War Diaries

In 1943, Kathleen, then thirty, was a nurse-in-training at the Blackburn Royal Infirmary. For the next three years, she kept a meticulous diary of her day-to-day existence, leaving behind a vivid record of the real-time concerns of a busy, thoughtful woman on the frontline of the war at home. Kathleen’s days were never the same. She writes in clear and lively prose about life in the hospital: of her fellow nurses, her patients, about death and dying, and the progress of the war as wounded soldiers returned from Normandy in the summer of 1944.

Listen to Confederate Girl's Diary with a movie-style soundtrack and amplify your audiobook experience. Sarah Morgan Dawson was a young woman of 20 living in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, when she began this diary. The American Civil War was raging. Though at first the conflict seemed far away, it would eventually be brought home to her in very personal terms.

Lieutenant General James Gavin, commander of the 82nd Airborne Division during WWII, is one of the best-known figures of the war. Beginning as the commander of the 505th Parachute Combat Team that spearheaded the American assault on Sicily in July 1943, Gavin advanced to division command and finally command of US forces in Berlin. He kept a wartime diary that starts in April 1943, as the unit was preparing to go to northern Africa and continues through to his final entry on September 1, 1945, during the occupation of Berlin.

A giant in American journalism in the vanguard of "The Greatest Generation" reveals his World War II experiences in this National Geographic book. More than 100 of Cronkite's letters from 1943-45 (plus a few earlier letters) survive. They reveal surprising and little-known facts about this storied public figure in the vanguard of "The Greatest Generation". They chronicle both a great love story and a great war story.

Dirty Eddie’s War is the true account of the wartime experiences of Harry Andrew March, Jr., captured by way of diary entries addressed to his beloved wife, Elsa. Nicknamed “Dirty Eddie” by his comrades, he served as a member of four squadrons operating in the South Pacific, frequently under difficult and perilous conditions.

Publicada en 1969, bajo la dictadura de Juan Carlos Onganía, Diario de la guerra del cerdo narra en clave semifantástica un enfrentamiento entre jóvenes y viejos en el barrio porteño de Palermo, suscitado por un inexplicable odio intergeneracional. De la noche a la mañana, unas pandillas de jóvenes violentos empiezan a atacar a ancianos y gente de edad, lo que trastoca la existencia del protagonista. Sus reacciones y la ambientación son realistas, pero el autor examina la cotidianidad a la luz de la fantasía y lo siniestro.

During the Second World War, across the frontline as well as on the Home Front, millions of people recorded their thoughts of their experiences - whether in letters, their personal diaries or those prosecuting the war giving speeches. Much as Letters of Note celebrated the great letters written through history, so Words of War allows the Imperial War Museum to showcase its incredible array of first-hand material to shine a light on how people journeyed through the 1939-45 conflict.

In 1935, 10-year-old Alex Maki from Bainbridge Island, Washington, is disgusted when he’s forced to become pen pals with Charlie Lévy of Paris, France - a girl. He thought she was a boy. In spite of Alex’s reluctance, their letters continue to fly across the Atlantic - and along with them, the shared hopes and dreams of friendship. Until the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor and the growing Nazi persecution of Jews force them to confront the darkest aspects of human nature.

World War II rises in its vastness and complexity over the rest of human history. The war was a gigantic melting pot of violence, power, and ideology that will leave an indelible scar on human history. This Diary of the Second World War has been able to cover all facets of the conflict....

World War II rises in its vastness and complexity over the rest of human history. The war was a gigantic melting pot of violence, power, and ideology that will leave an indelible scar on human history. This Diary of the Second World War has been able to cover all facets of the conflict and is a fundamentally empirical work, which narrates events as they occurred, rejecting value judgments, and therein lies its value: It is an insurmountable encyclopedia on war; the World War II Diary represents a milestone in this field.

World War II rises in its vastness and complexity over the rest of human history. The war was a gigantic melting pot of violence, power, and ideology that will leave an indelible scar on human history. This Diary of the Second World War has been able to cover all facets of the conflict and is a fundamentally empirical work, which narrates events as they occurred, rejecting value judgments, and therein lies its value: It is an insurmountable encyclopedia on war; the World War II Diary represents a milestone in this field.

World War II rises in its vastness and complexity over the rest of human history. A number of victims difficult to conceive, never surpassed by any other conflict; the masses of men, women, and resources mobilized in a conflict that shook even the most remote ends of the planet; the ideological battle between totalitarianism and democracy, between fascism and communism, the passions and hatred that it aroused; the unimaginable horror and fanaticism of the Holocaust; geopolitical games; the repetition of World War I on an even more dire scale.

Senator Thomas Dodd began his career in public service as a prosecutor at the Nuremburg trials. His son, Senator Christopher Dodd, recently discovered his mother's collection of letters his father wrote during that time. Through his father, Chris Dodd learned not only the scope of the Holocaust but also the importance of the rule of law.

Este Diario de la Segunda Guerra Mundial es el fruto de años de trabajo, de tenaces investigaciones, que han hilado una madeja de incontables sucesos para darnos una imagen amplia de la totalidad de la guerra. No solo es extraordinario el alcance de esta obra, que cubre seis años de un conflicto que se extendió por los cinco continentes, también lo es el método que emplea para capturar de manera concisa sus distintos aspectos. Este audiolibro contiene los 12 meses del año 1944.

Este Diario de la Segunda Guerra Mundial es una obra fundamentalmente empírica, que narra los acontecimientos tal y como ocurrieron, rechazando los juicios de valor, y ahí reside su valía. Tanto como libro, documental y audiolibro, el Diario de la Segunda Guerra Mundial representa un hito en este campo. Este audiolibro contiene los 12 meses del año 1943.

La Segunda Guerra Mundial se alza en su inmensidad y complejidad sobre el resto de la historia humana. Este Diario de la Segunda Guerra Mundial es el fruto de años de trabajo, de tenaces investigaciones, que han hilado una madeja de incontables sucesos para darnos una imagen amplia de la totalidad de la guerra. No solo es extraordinario el alcance de esta obra, que cubre seis años de un conflicto que se extendió por los cinco continentes, también lo es el método que emplea para capturar de manera concisa sus distintos aspectos.

Al final de la Primera Guerra Mundial, el Tratado de Versalles de 1919 despojó a Alemania de sus colonias de ultramar y le impuso una enorme factura de reparaciones por los daños y la destrucción causados a Francia y otros países. El pueblo alemán, afectado por la hiperinflación en 1923 y por el desempleo masivo en 1929, buscó desesperadamente una salida a la crisis. En estas circunstancias, un oscuro ex-coronel con un don para la oratoria mordaz, Adolf Hitler, fue capaz de llevar al poder al extremista Partido Nazi en 1933.

Al final de la Primera Guerra Mundial, el Tratado de Versalles de 1919 despojó a Alemania de sus colonias de ultramar y le impuso una enorme factura de reparaciones por los daños y la destrucción causados a Francia y otros países. El pueblo alemán, afectado por la hiperinflación en 1923 y por el desempleo masivo en 1929, buscó desesperadamente una salida a la crisis. En estas circunstancias, un oscuro ex-coronel con un don para la oratoria mordaz, Adolf Hitler, fue capaz de llevar al poder al extremista Partido Nazi en 1933.

In April 1915 Dorothea Crewdson, a newly trained Red Cross nurse, and her best friend, Christie, received instructions to leave for Le Treport in Northern France. Filled with excitement at the prospect of her first paid job, Dorothea began writing a diary. 'Who knows how long we shall really be out here? Seems a good chance from all reports of the campaigns being ended before winter, but all is uncertain.'

Viscount Horatio Nelson (1758-1805), known as ‘The Hero’ during his own lifetime was both an inspiring commander and an innovative tactician, becoming a rear admiral after defeating the Spanish fleet at the Battle of Cape St Vincent. He was also responsible for the great victories of the Nile (1798) and Copenhagen (1801). Revered by his officers and men, he was renowned for both his arrogance and his scandalous love affair with the beautiful Emma Hamilton.