American Sniper
by Chris Kyle | 
No Easy Day
by Mark Owen | 
The Pianist
by Wladyslaw Szpilman | 
Auschwitz
by Miklos Nyiszli | 
The Forgotten Highlander
by Alistair Urquhart | 
A Woman in Berlin
by Marta Hillers | 
Devil at My Heels
by Louis Zamperini |
Survival in the Killing Fields
by Haing Ngor | 
One Bullet Away
by Nathaniel Fick | 
Tears of the Desert
by Halima Bashir | 
Joker One
by Donovan Campbell | 
The Girl Who Smiled Beads
by Clemantine Wamariya | 
Scum of the Earth
by Arthur Koestler | 
War Letters
by Andrew Carroll |
Behind Enemy Lines
by Marthe Cohn | 
The Face of War
by Martha Gellhorn |
A Soldier's Story
by Omar N. Bradley |
Until the Final Hour
by Traudl Junge | 
Looking Like the Enemy
by Mary Matsuda Gruenewald | 
Zlata's Diary
by Zlata Filipovic |
As a child in a small rural village in Sierra Leone, Mariatu Kamara lived peacefully surrounded by family and friends. Rumors of rebel attacks were no more than a distant worry. But when 12-year-old Mariatu set out for a neighboring village, she never arrived. Heavily armed rebel soldiers, many no older than children themselves, attacked and tortured Mariatu. During this brutal act of senseless violence they cut off both her hands. Stumbling through the countryside, Mariatu miraculously survived. The sweet taste of a mango, her first food after the attack, reaffirmed her desire to live, but the challenge of clutching the fruit in her bloodied arms reinforced the grim new reality that stood before her. With no parents or living adult to support her and living in a refugee camp, she turned to begging in the streets of Freetown. As told to her by Mariatu, journalist Susan McClelland has written the heartbreaking true story of the brutal attack, its aftermath and Mariatu's eventual arrival in Toronto where she began to pull together the pieces of her broken life with courage, astonishing resilience and hope.