children and war

Presents the autobiography of a child's life in war torn Sarajevo.

Presents the autobiography of the woman who survived years of exile from her home in Monrovia, Liberia and, upon her return to her war-torn country, became a radio celebrity who went into the ghettos to find and befriend former child soldiers as well as war-lords and record their stories in an attempt to achieve reconciliation and forgiveness.

Savo Heleta recounts the experiences he had while living in war-torn Bosnia, describing the horror he and his family faced at the hands of a former family friend who murdered his grandfather and terrorized his family throughout the war.

A collection of personal recollections in which men and women share their stories of survival during World War II.

Colombian children describe the impact that civil war has had on their lives.

Discusses the history of using children as soldiers around the world from 1940 to present day.

The author is a relief worker and child psychiatrist who interviewed over forty Serb and Muslim children who came of age during the Bosnian War in the 1990's. She returned twenty years later to discover the adults they have become. Their poignant stories illuminate the resilience of the human spirit.

Describes Uganda in the aftermath of the ongoing Civil War that has destroyed the country and in which children have been the main agents of that destruction. Because of the brutality wrought by the Lord's Resistance Army, adults fear not only child soldiers but all children.

Under the Nazis, Europe's children were simply objects available for use in the service of the totalitarian state. The children were subjected to euthanasia, eugenic selection, racist indoctrination, kidnapping, "Germanization", mass executions and slave labor. At the end of the war, uprooted children tried to search for their families and many never found them.

A little boy whose father is in the military describes Daddy's departure for Iraq, the ways he copes at home while Daddy is away, and Daddy's return.