True Accounts

This page is now showing true stories that are long-term free.  They may include war, accident, any hardship, simple and/or country living, nature survival, and life stories that include, for example, life during the Great Depression or earlier times without modern conveniences.

Each day's newly free books are all now at the links given on each day's update posts.

As usual always check the price before clicking on buy.  Prices are always subject to change without notice.

Here are a couple of searches for historical books for those interested.  The free ones are at the top of the lists.  
Charles River Editors Histories 
"A Very Brief History" series

The Story of a Pioneer by Anna Howard Shaw (listed Apr. 2) may also be read directly online  HERE.  Plot synopsis and review can be found HERE. The first part is about Scottish immigrants who face hardship at home and in  the "new world."  Descriptions of her mother's reaction to the conditions are poignant.  Later the story moves to the author's suffrage work.+

True Accounts

1. Aircraft and Submarines The Story of the Invention, Development, and Present-Day Uses of War's Newest Weapons	2. My Adventures as a Spy	3. The Cariboo Trail A Chronicle of the Gold-fields of British Columbia
4. The Emily Updates (Vol. 1): One Year in the Life of the Girl Who Lived --pediatric cancer	5. A Pain in the Toenails (Excerpt from The Most Unfeeling Doctor in the World)	6. Running a Thousand Miles for Freedom; or, the escape of William and Ellen Craft from slavery
7. 'Brother Bosch', an Airman's Escape from Germany	8. Boxer Hobo (The Hobo Chronicles)	9. History of the Johnstown Flood Including all the Fearful Record; the Breaking of the South Fork Dam;
10. The Story of a Pioneer--Scottish immigr. face primitive conditions in	11. Life in the Backwoods--old book	12. Letters of a Woman Homesteader
13. The Bark Covered House Or, Back In the Woods Again; Being a Graphic and Thrilling Description of Rea	14. Santa Barbara Fire Song in Three Part	15. Adventure Travel - 16 stories from a world traveller hoping to provide little inspiration for your n
16. Nikola Tesla: Imagination and the Man That Invented the 20th Century	17. Reminiscences of Pioneer Days in St. Paul	18. The Second Fly Caster: Fatherhood, Recovery and an Unforgettable Tournament
19. Raiders (eBook Sampler) one complete story: Operation Judgement,one of the most incredible raids of WW2	20. Daniel Boone The Pioneer of Kentucky	21. Non-Kindle, Woman on the American Frontier ...History of the Heroism, Adventures, Privations, Captivities, Trials, and Noble Lives and Deaths of
22. Pioneers of France in the New World	23. Pioneers of the Old South: a chronicle of English colonial beginnings	24. Pioneers in Canada
25. Wild Western Scenes A Narrative of Adventures in the Western Wilderness, Wherein theExploits of Daniel Boone, the Great American Pioneer	26. Pioneers of the Old Southwest: a chronicle of the dark and bloody ground	27. Aftershock: The Blast That Shook Psycho Platoon--study on PTSD
28. Letters From Alabama	29. End of the Road (The Rozzers)	30. More Adventure Travel - 11 more stories of worldwide adventure to further inspire you towards your o
31. Bridge Disasters in America The Cause and the Remedy

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