Personal Narratives Books

A Soldier’s Diary

Ralph Scott

Lord Robert Cecil has said that he is amazed at the false picture of war given by the history books, and that he trusts that the historians of the future will give us a better picture of what war real..

Inside the Russian Revolution

Rheta Childe Dorr

A great deal of news, as we regard news, never gets into the papers at all, or is compressed into very small space. For example there have been a number of terrible railroad accidents on the Russian r..

Personal Experiences During the Chicago Fire, 1871

Frank J. Loesch

The sidewalks, except in the South Side business district, where limestone flags predominated, were entirely of pine or hemlock planking and many of the streets were raised on wooden supports from fou..

Prison Life in the Old Capitol and Reminiscences of the Civil War

James J. Williamson

The little episode in relation to the Fairfax Court House raid will need no apology for its introduction, as I have already had occasion to refer to that affair in my diary. I have before me a re..

News from No Man's Land

James Green

I am indebted to the Rev. James Green for the privilege of writing an introduction to his book, in which he gives a lucid and interesting description of the life of our gallant soldiers of the A.I.F. ..

The Irish Nuns at Ypres

Dame M. Columban

The following narrative was originally intended, as a record of the events it relates, for the use of the Community only. But, shortly after the arrival of the Mother Prioress in England, the manuscri..