children and war

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.

Drawings, letters, and poems by children from schools and refugee camps in former Yugoslavia, expressing their hopes and fears in a shattered world.

Presents fourteen journals written by adolescents coping with war from World War I to the war in Iraq, exposing the experiences of young people caught in the midst of war and the impact it has on their lives.

When Kato heads to the village well to pump a day's supply of water into two jerry cans, he discovers the aid-worker's truck has arrived with a special gift for his village.

A collection of poems about children's perceptions and experiences of war throughout the world.

Presents the stories of people who were children and teenagers during World War II in which they describe what it was like to live in the United States during the war years, from 1941 to 1945.