In happier news, the diary contains a boatload of fun anachronisms: answering machines, mix tapes, VCRs, “Men Are From Mars, Women Are From Venus.” Fielding’s voice is clever and witty.

Books: Japanese War Diary; Books: Japanese War Diary. 2 minute read. TIME. February 13, 1939 12:00 AM GMT-5. ... of no heroes, but plain men fighting desperately for their lives.

It is difficult to imagine the terror onboard the U.S.S. Tang on Oct. 24, 1944. The submarine was in the Taiwan Strait off the coast of China that day when it was struck by a circular run of its own ...

Fact checked by Sarah Scott. If your child is a fan of the wildly popular Diary of a Wimpy Kid books, get ready! Jeff Kinney ...

If you haven’t read The Diary of a Young Girl in a while (or even if you have), here are 10 things you should know about the book and its author, who—along with her family—was captured by ...

The diary was elegant, apparently, with poetry and drawings etched amid the entries. The American soldier had found it on a battlefield. For his job, for wartime strategy, the thing to do would ...