Oral History Books


Striking Back: A Jewish Commando's War Against the Nazis Best Price: $27.43 I have read this book about seven or eight times. When I finally met the author, Peter Masters,...	Southern Appalachia, 1885-1915: Oral Histories from Residents of the State Corner Area of North Carolina, Tennessee, and Virginia Best Price: $45.00	War Stories: Veterans Remember Wwii (Oral History Program) Best Price: $14.00	Autobiography: Quod Ore Sumpsimus	Eleanor Roosevelt: Oral Histories from the Collections of the Franklin D. Roosevelt Library, Part 2 This is part of a four-volume set which presents a collection of interviews with dozens of...



"The Orange of Love and Other Stories": The Rom-Gypsy Language in Norway (Serie B--Skrifter, 88) Norwegian Gypsies, or Rom, speak a New-Indic language called Romanes. This collection of oral...	Between Two Evils: The World War II Memoir of a Girl in Occupied Warsaw and a Nazi Labor Camp This memoir is certainly worthwhile reading if one is unfamiliar with this time in history,...	It Happened in the Catskills: An Oral History in the Words of Busboys, Bellhops, Guests, Proprietors, Comedians, Agents, and Other Best Price: $19.80 While working at the Nevele Country Club, one of the many legendary Catskill resorts covered in...	Death March: The Survivors of Bataan Best Price: $37.50 An account of the extraordinary strength and courage exhibited by americans under the extreme...	Hidden Children of the Holocaust: Belgian Nuns and their Daring Rescue of Young Jews from the Nazis Best Price: $8.62 For those who know a great deal about the Holocaust, and for those just beginning their study of...



The Unfinished Road: Jewish Survivors of Latvia Look Back During the Holocaust, thousands of Jews from Germany, Austria, Czechoslovakia, and later Hungary...	Michelangelo in Ravensbruck: One Woman's War Against the Nazis Best Price: $5.99 In September of 1939, Countess Karolina Lanckoronska, wealthy landowner and professor of art...	The Dentist of Auschwitz: A Memoir The story of Berek Jakubowicz (now Benjamin Jacobs), a Jewish dental student, is a gripping...	A Labour of Love: Experience of Parenthood in Britain, 1900-50 This is a social and oral history of parenthood that recreates the lost world of family life in...	Battle of Valle Giulia: Oral History and the Art of Dialogue Best Price: $199.95 History, we are often taught, is driven by vast social, political, and economic forces. But each...

Auschwitz and After Best Price: $196.50 In March 1942, French police arrested Charlotte Delbo and her husband, the resistance leader...	The Worst of Times 'Gray's assemblage gives a powerful sense of the depth of misery many Britons...	Oral History and the Local Historian (Approaches to Local History Series) In this text, Dr Cauce draws upon his experiences as a researcher, writer, museums officer and...	Miami Beach Memories: A Nostalgic Chronicle of Days Gone By Best Price: $13.99 My father, Bennett M. Lifter was son of the beach and loved Miami Beach. I grew up watching his...	Hidden Children of the Holocaust : Belgian Nuns and their Daring Rescue of Young Jews from the Nazis In the terrifying summer of 1942 in Belgium, when the Nazis began the brutal roundup of Jewish...

International Yearbook of Oral History and Life Stories: Volume I: Memory and Totalitarianism (v. 1) International Yearbook of Oral History and Life Stories is a new series which aims to increase...	TUMULT IN THE CLOUDS: The British Experience of the War in the Air 1914-1918.	Israel at Sixty: An Oral History of a Nation Reborn Best Price: $0.53 Based on extensive interviews, Israel at Sixty presents a balanced, comprehensive account of...	A Wall of Two: Poems of Resistance and Suffering from Kraków to Buchenwald and Beyond (S. Mark Taper Foundation Books in Jewish Studies) Best Price: $8.02 This book of poetry is a must read for anyone interested in learning more about the Holocaust...	A Cup of Tears: A Diary of the Warsaw Ghetto Best Price: $153.00 In November 1940, the Nazis sealed off the Warsaw Ghetto. Among the 400 000 Jews were...

Blood of Spain: Oral History of the Spanish Civil War	Women's Oral History: The Frontiers Reader Best Price: $16.40 Women's Oral History: The "Frontiers" Reader is an essential guide to the...	Oral History in Social Work: Research, Assessment, and Intervention (SAGE Human Services Guides) Best Price: $25.00 This is an excellent guide to conducting oral history research. Ruth Martin defines oral history...	Mexican Voices/American Dreams: An Oral History of Mexican Immigration to the United States Best Price: $22.47 The story of Mexican immigration tolf from a new perspective, in the words of the men and women...	To Be an Indian: An Oral History (Borealis Books) Best Price: $13.01 In this remarkable collection of 52 oral histories, first published in 1971, members of Dakota,...

A Voice in the Chorus: Memories of a Teenager Saved by Schindler Best Price: $98.15	Strange and Unexpected Love: A Teenage Girl's Holocaust Memoirs Best Price: $22.50 Fanya Gottesfeld-Heller recounts her girlhood years as a Jew during World War II, spent in...	Reading Voices, Dan Dha Ts'edenintth'e: Oral and Written Interpretations of the Yukon's Past Best Price: $12.79	Shapland and Petter of Barnstaple: An Oral History	Memories from Frenchwood: A Collection of Reminiscences

Through the Mill: Personal Recollections by Veteran Men and Women Penicuik Paper Mill Workers	The Testimony of Lives Vieda Skultans left Latvia as a refugee at the age of six months. In 1990, she returned for the...	You Must Remember This: An Oral History of Manhattan from the 1890's to World War II Best Price: $51.49 kisselhoff manages to recount one of the most interesting periods of history through not only...	Hidden Children of the Holocaust : Belgian Nuns and their Daring Rescue of Young Jews from the Nazis In the terrifying summer of 1942 in Belgium, when the Nazis began the brutal roundup of Jewish...	International Yearbook of Oral History and Life Stories: Volume I: Memory and Totalitarianism (v. 1) International Yearbook of Oral History and Life Stories is a new series which aims to increase...

TUMULT IN THE CLOUDS: The British Experience of the War in the Air 1914-1918.	Israel at Sixty: An Oral History of a Nation Reborn Best Price: $0.53 Based on extensive interviews, Israel at Sixty presents a balanced, comprehensive account of...	A Wall of Two: Poems of Resistance and Suffering from Kraków to Buchenwald and Beyond (S. Mark Taper Foundation Books in Jewish Studies) Best Price: $8.02 This book of poetry is a must read for anyone interested in learning more about the Holocaust...	A Cup of Tears: A Diary of the Warsaw Ghetto Best Price: $153.00 In November 1940, the Nazis sealed off the Warsaw Ghetto. Among the 400 000 Jews were...	Blood of Spain: Oral History of the Spanish Civil War

Women's Oral History: The Frontiers Reader Best Price: $16.40 Women's Oral History: The "Frontiers" Reader is an essential guide to the...	Oral History in Social Work: Research, Assessment, and Intervention (SAGE Human Services Guides) Best Price: $25.00 This is an excellent guide to conducting oral history research. Ruth Martin defines oral history...	Mexican Voices/American Dreams: An Oral History of Mexican Immigration to the United States Best Price: $22.47 The story of Mexican immigration tolf from a new perspective, in the words of the men and women...	Witnesses to the Holocaust: An Oral History (Twayne's Oral History Series) Best Price: $51.98	Vietnam: The Heartland Remembers Best Price: $30.00 "Vietnam, the heartland remembers" is absolutly riviting. It is one of the...

Survival: The Story of a Sixteen-Year-Old Jewish Boy (Religion, Theology, and the Holocaust) Survival: The Story of a Sixteen-Year-Old Jewish Boy begins with Israel J. Rosengarten's...	Socialism in Western Europe: The Experience of a Generation (A Westview replica edition)	Beyond Faith and Adventure: Irish Missionaries in Nigeria Tell Their Extraordinary Story	Field of Spears: The Last Mission of the Jordan Crew What happens to ordinary people in times of war? Gregory Hadley explores this question as he...	200 Years Through 200 Stories: A Tennessee Bicentennial Collection Best Price: $15.03

Competing Voices from the Pacific War: Fighting Words Best Price: $61.10 Competing Voices from the Pacific War: Fighting Words covers the period from July 1937 to...	Inheriting the Holocaust: A Second-generation Memoir In Inheriting the Holocaust, Paula S. Fass explores her own past as the daughter of Holocaust...	Journey Out of Darkness: The Real Story of American Heroes in Hitler's POW Camps--An Oral History (Praeger Security International) Journey Out of Darkness is a poignant collection of portraits, in words and photographs, of 19...	Inherited Memories: Israeli Children of Holocaust Survivors Best Price: $6.98 In this book, the Israeli children of Holocaust survivors narrate their parents' wartime...	Will to Freedom: A Perilous Journey Through Fascism and Communism Best Price: $47.97 If ever I get imprisoned I'll remember to use a coffee-stained napkin and stale bread to...

Women of Phokeng: Consciousness, Life Strategy and Migrancy in South Africa, 190	Winning Tales from Scottish Houses	Vermonters: Oral Histories from Down Country to the Northeast Kingdom Best Price: $33.94 Strickland captures the very marrow of these early New Englanders, who epitomize the American...	Enough is Enough: Aboriginal Women Speak Out Best Price: $7.99 The author,janet silman lived with our family while doing the research for her book, this is an...	Dorset Man: The Working Landscape

When I Was Young: The Highlands and East Coast (Voices from Lost Communities) Tackling Scotland's history of war, clearance and change in many lost communities, this book...	Hoggie's Angels (Flashbacks) Part of the "Flashbacks" oral history series and a follow-on from "Hard Work, Ye...	Eleanor Roosevelt: Oral Histories from the Collections of the Franklin D. Roosevelt Library, Part 2 This is part of a four-volume set which presents a collection of interviews with dozens of...	Oral History Index: An International Directory of Oral History Interviews This directory lists over 30,000 individuals who have been interviewed and provides information...	In the Country of Brooklyn One of every seven people in the United States can trace their family back to Brooklyn, New...

Tears before the Rain : An Oral History of the Fall of South Vietnam CBS camera-man Mike Marriott was on the last plane to escape from Danang before it fell in the...	Jagendorf's Foundry: Memoir of the Romanian Holocaust 1941-1944 Best Price: $14.85 The previous reviewer made this remark, "despite the hardships and horror that was the...	A Guide to Oral History and the Law (Oxford Oral History) Best Price: $11.33 I am contemplating beginning collecting personal histories of my parents (and possibly other...	Nga Morehu: The Survivors This life history of eight Maori women is the first book in which different Maori women speak in...	Parallels: The Soldiers' Knowledge and the Oral History of Contemporary Warfare (Communication and Social Order) Best Price: $28.54 Parallels reclaims the experience of American and Soviet participants in the two longest and...

The Scroll of Agony: The Warsaw Diary of Chaim A. Kaplan Best Price: $36.56 "A precious record of Jewish life under Nazi rule." - "New York Review of...	French War Brides in America: An Oral History Best Price: $21.01 In 1944 and 1945, millions of American soldiers took part in the Liberation of France. It was...	Journey Out of Darkness: The Real Story of American Heroes in Hitler's POW Camps--An Oral History (Praeger Security International) Best Price: $16.49 Journey Out of Darkness is a poignant collection of portraits, in words and photographs, of 19...	The Last Jew from Wegrow: The Memoirs of a Survivor of the Step-by-Step Genocide in Poland Best Price: $85.50 I found Last Jew from Wegrow Riveting, informative,accurate,Heartfelt,and Proud to be a...	On Listening to Holocaust Survivors: Recounting and Life History Best Price: $24.00 Having listened myself, again and again, to the stories of several Holocaust survivors I have...

It Happened In Manhattan: An Oral History of Life in the City During The Mid-20th Century Best Price: $2.99 A mosaic of mid-century Manhattan and an exuberant oral history that begins in the post-World...	Talking Work: An Oral History Best Price: $569.70 In a series of interviews spanning the 20th century, people talk about what work - or the lack...	Why My Father Died: A Daughter Confronts Her Family's Past at the Trial of Klaus Barbie Best Price: $1.29 Although there are some interesting details in the book, it failed to hold my interest, as I...	Rosie the Riveter Revisited: Women, the War, and Social Change Best Price: $131.55	Doing Oral History (Twayne's Oral History Series) Best Price: $263.30 Oral history is vital to our understanding of the cultures and experiences of the past. Unlike...

Ruth's Journey: A Survivor's Memoir Best Price: $4.99 Ms.Glasberg has had the courage to dig and relive her unspeakably hellish past. She has...	Second Generation Voices: Reflections by Children of Holocaust Survivors and Perpetrators (Religion, Theology and the Holocaust) Best Price: $126.46	The Uprooted: A Hitler Legacy Best Price: $19.04 The Uprooted is story a that features other stories of 190 escapees. This was also written by...	Giuliani: Flawed or Flawless The Oral Biography Best Price: $0.99 The authors attempt to convinve the reader that their opinions are unbiased, but they are not...	Nothing Less Than Victory

Thinking about Oral History: Theories and Applications Best Price: $37.90 A companion to History of Oral History, Thinking about Oral History presents parts III and IV of...	Guide to Oral History Collections in Louisiana (Williams Center for Oral History Series) (v. 1) Best Price: $10.99	Shattered Faith: A Holocaust Legacy Best Price: $61.98 Reviiewing the latest "swiss gold scandal" this book is a must. To the best of...	Brazilian Women Speak: Contemporary Life Stories	Living Atlanta: An Oral History of the City, 1914-1948 (Atlanta Historical Society) Best Price: $24.95 The premise of this book is so promising, yet it disappoints entirely. After reading this, you...

Diné Bahane': The Navajo Creation Story Best Price: $10.09 This book is about the creation of life. How human beings evolved in a world that had kaos. This...	After Survival: One Man's Mission in the Cause of Memory Best Price: $19.99 Leon Zelman, a journalist and director of th e Israel Department of the Austrian Travel Agency,...

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