A battered diary from World War I was just found in a barn in England. It recounts the horrific Battle of the Somme, the ...

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 ...

Historic diaries found at a school in Kent have been helping its current pupils discover what life was like for alumni during wartime. Amy Rowley-Jones, headteacher at Walderslade Primary School ...

In the impossible arithmetic of hostage transfers, how does it feel to be told that the terrorist who shattered your world will walk free?

From a variety of new sources—including the wartime diaries of King George VI in the Royal Archives at Windsor Castle, opened to me by the gracious permission of Her Majesty the Queen—it is ...

John — whose three brothers William Paterson, Joseph and James also made it home from the front — never talked about the war. He only mentioned the diaries in a letter written the year before ...

Languages: English. Lisa Jane Smith "L.J. Smith," the author of the Vampire Diaries book series, died on Saturday, March 8, at 66 years old in Walnut Creek, California. Smith's partner ...

The author behind the Vampire Diaries books has died at the age of 66. LJ Smith is said to have died in hospital where she was being treated for a rare autoimmune disease, according to her family.