Cigarette Diaries: Excerpts From a WWII Journal
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On Sept. 13, 1944, the B-24 with bombadier Second Lt. Frank J. Pratt was shot down by the Germans over Poland. These are excerpts from the diaries he kept in captivity--many of which were written on the backs of paper wrappers from cigarette packs.
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By Thomas, William  Abstract. This paper explores the relationship between operations research (OR) as practised during the Second World War and the claims of many of its proponents that it constituted an application of scientific method.
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For every generation in this country there has been a war. And with wars come millions of records that can shed light on family history, detailing everything from the color of soldiers' eyes to what their neighbors may have said about them.
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Description: Though George Carlin is best known as a performer, he&#39;s collected his observations on life, the media, politics and the English language into a series of books.
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Reader Manish Kejriwal shares his memories.
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The must-buy gift for German far-right extremists this Christmas is a 2005 pocket diary that sets out red-letter days for neo-Nazis, from Hitler's birthday to forgotten SS anniversaries.
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Research published in the international medical journal Addiction showed that moderate exercise reduced the intensity of smokers' nicotine withdrawal symptoms
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By MIKE SCHNEIDER  CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. - Dear Diary, the astronauts write.  Well, maybe not in those exact words. But three times a week, the two U.S. astronauts aboard the international space station write down their secret thoughts in their personal journals.
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A Holocaust-era diary and love letters written by a Jewish teen for her Dutch boyfriend while she was imprisoned in an internment camp in 1943 has been donated to a Dutch archives.
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As flames engulfed the Warsaw ghetto in its last days in 1943, a young Jewish woman hiding from Nazi soldiers kept a journal about her fight to survive in a cramped basement.
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THE DESHIMA DIARIES MARGINALIA 1740-1800, edited by Leonard Bluss, Cynthia Viall, Willem Remmelink and Isabel van Daalen.
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A collection of sites with first-person accounts and photos
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Behind the lens: A Times photographer's contemporaneous account from ground zero.
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DRESDEN, Germany -- From an altitude of 10,000 feet, Sergeant Navigator Harold Nash looked down from the cockpit of the British fighter plane as it dropped incendiary bombs on German cities and towns during World War II.
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Readers fire off a few comments on sci-fi past and present, and reminisce on a trip to a SubAtomic Inferno. Plus: Links to our most commented-upon blog posts.
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A glimpse into the cast of Flavours.
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A taste of the latest in food memoirs, a thriving literary genre