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Charles H. Walker settled in Columbia County after the war, and his descendants are committed to preserving and sharing his ...
A battered diary from World War I was just found in a barn in England. It recounts the horrific Battle of the Somme, the ...
He also kept three beautifully written diaries detailing his time in the trenches and recording the death, horror and bravery of the War. After the war he returned to America, contracted ...
As such, he was aware of the mass execution in Mankato but had never read deeply about it until after editing Buswell’s diaries. Since then he figures he has read four books on the Dakota War ...
Diaries written by young people have survived some of these conflicts, too. These writers report on the events of war; they reflect on the way massive forces shape their personal lives ...
SEE ALSO: Great Britain Darkens in Remembrance of World War I His step-grandson, Andy Howard, vows to post the diary entries on a blog in real-time every day for a year so others can get a sense ...
The diary is the only known first-person account from a Chinese officer who took part in the D-Day landings. This historic event was in France during the second world war. The discovery shows the ...