For solace he turned to his war diary, expanding and rewriting it, and fleshing out his sketches with paint and ink.

FORBES: War Story

More than a century later Sneden's war diary is being published in book form, together with paintings and maps he made of his experience.

FORBES: War Story

Daniel Domscheit-Berg, a longtime volunteer and spokesman for WikiLeaks who recently quit his job, told CNN that Assange's personality was distracting from the group's original mission: to publish small leaks, not just huge, splashy ones like the Afghan War Diary.

CNN: The secret life of Julian Assange

Richard Meinertzhagen, who served as an intelligence officer in wartime and post-World War I Mandatory Palestine, made this point clearly in his memoir Middle East Diary.

CENTERFORSECURITYPOLICY: The Eternal Liberation Movement

Five more pages of the Diary of Anne Frank - the Jewish girl who hid from the Nazis in an Amsterdam house during World War II - have been found by researchers in the Netherlands.

BBC: News | Europe | New Anne Frank Diary pages found