GENERAL

*War and the Pity of War, edited by Neil Philip, illustrated by Michael McCurdy. Clarion, 1998.

A moving anthology of war poetry.

WORLD WAR II

*Remember Pearl Harbor: American and Japanese Survivors Tell Their Stories by Thomas B. Allen. National Geographic, 2001.

Oral histories and photographs.

*Navajo Code Talkers by Nathan Aaseng. Walker, 1992.

Developing an unbreakable code based on their complex language, these Native Americans helped win the war.

Black Knights : the Story of the Tuskegee Airmen, by Lynn M. Homan and Thomas Reilly ; foreword by Louis R. Purnell. Pelican, 2001.

Pioneering African-American pilots.

Diary of a Young Girl: the Definitive Edition, edited by Otto H. Frank and Mirjam Pressler. Doubleday, 1995.

Anne Frank's classic diary.

In My Hands : Memories of a Holocaust Rescuer by Irene Gut Opdyke. Anchor Books, 2001.

A Polish girl who hid and saved Jews tells her gripping story.

KOREA

Korea: the Unknown War, by Jon Halliday and Bruce Cumings. Pantheon, 1988.

Overview extensively illustrated with photographs.

No Bugles, No Drums: an Oral History of the Korean War, by Rudy Tomedi. John Wiley, 1993.

Veterans speak and remember.

VIETNAM

*America and Vietnam : the Elephant and the Tiger, by Albert Marrin. Viking, 1992.

Examines all aspects of the Vietnam War, political, military, and social.

Dear America : Letters Home from Vietnam, edited by Bernard Edelman.

A touching anthology compiled for the New York Vietnam Veterans Memorial Commission. Norton, 1985.

BOSNIA AND HERCEGOVINA

*Zlata's Diary : a Child's Life in Sarajevo by Zlata Filipovic. Viking, 1994.

War-torn Bosnia in the early 1990s.

PERSIAN GULF

Falcon's Cry: a Desert Storm Memoir, by Maj. Michael Donnelly, USAF, Rtd. Praeger, 1998.

An Air Force veteran recounts veterans' struggles with illnesses apparently related to the 1991 war.