A Child S War

Author : Monique Charlesworth
Publisher : Anchor
Page : 386 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2007-12-18
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780307428240

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The Children's War by Monique Charlesworth Pdf

This is the story of two children caught in the midst of war.It is 1939 and thirteen-year-old Ilse, half-Jewish, has been sent out of Germany by her Aryan mother to a place of supposed safety. Her journey takes her from the labyrinthine bazaars of Morocco to Paris, a city made hectic at the threat of Nazi invasion. At the same time in Germany, Nicolai, a boy miserably destined for the Nazi Youth movement, finds comfort in the friendship of Ilse’s mother, the nursemaid hired to take care of his young sister. Gripping and poignant, The Children’s War is a stunning novel of wartime lives, of parents and children, of adventure and self-discovery.

Author : Mike Brown
Publisher : The History Press
Page : 134 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2011-11-08
Category : History
ISBN : 9780752475905

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A Child's War by Mike Brown Pdf

When the Second World War broke out in September 1939, it came as no surprise to the children of Germany: the Nazis had been preparing them for a war ever since they had come to power in 1933. To British children it was an altogether different matter. Children all over Britain were deeply affected by the war: many were separated from their parents by evacuation or bereavement; all had to 'make do and mend' with clothes and toys; and some even died while contributing to the war effort at home. In this moving and often amusing account, Mike Brown describes what life was like on the Home Front during the war from a child's point of view. His fully illustrated narrative includes details of evacuation, rationing, coping with gas masks and air raids, entertainment and the important - and often dangerous - roles of the Boy Scouts and Girl Guides. This photographic history pays tribute to the generation of girls and boys who grew up under the shadow of the Second World War.

Author : Deborah Ellis
Publisher : Groundwood Books Ltd
Page : 130 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9780888999078

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Children of War by Deborah Ellis Pdf

Provides interviews with twenty-three young Iraqi children who have moved away from their homeland and tells of their fears, challenges, and struggles to rebuild their lives in foreign lands as refugees of war.

Author : Kati David
Publisher : Basic Books
Page : 210 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 1989
Category : History
ISBN : 0941423247

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A Child's War by Kati David Pdf

Fifteen people, who were children during World War II, share their memories of the period and explain how it shaped their lives

Author : Molly Bihet
Publisher : Amberley Publishing Limited
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : History
ISBN : 9781848682054

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A Child's War by Molly Bihet Pdf

A Child's War tells the story of Germany's occupation of Guernsey through the eyes of a young girl.

Author : Peter W. Singer
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2015-03-04
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781101970058

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Children at War by Peter W. Singer Pdf

Children at War is the first comprehensive book to examine the growing and global use of children as soldiers. P.W. Singer, an internationally recognized expert in twenty-first-century warfare, explores how a new strategy of war, utilized by armies and warlords alike, has targeted children, seeking to turn them into soldiers and terrorists. Singer writes about how the first American serviceman killed by hostile fire in Afghanistan—a Green Beret—was shot by a fourteen-year-old Afghan boy; how suspected militants detained by U.S. forces in Iraq included more than one hundred children under the age of seventeen; and how hundreds who were taken hostage in Thailand were held captive by the rebel "God's Army," led by twelve-year-old twins. Interweaving the voices of child soldiers throughout the book, Singer looks at the ways these children are recruited, abducted, trained, and finally sent off to fight in war-torn hot spots, from Colombia and the Sudan to Kashmir and Sierra Leone. He writes about children who have been indoctrinated to fight U.S. forces in Iraq and Afghanistan; of Iraqui boys between the ages of ten and fifteen who had been trained in military arms and tactics to become Saddam Hussein's Ashbal Saddam (Lion Cubs); of young refugees from Pakistani madrassahs who were recruited to help bring the Taliban to power in the Afghan civil war. The author, National Security Fellow at the Brookings Institution and director of the Brookings Project on U.S. Policy Towards the Islamic World, explores how this phenomenon has come about, and how social disruptions and failures of development in modern Third World nations have led to greater global conflict and an instability that has spawned a new pool of recruits. He writes about how technology has made today's weapons smaller and lighter and therefore easier for children to carry and handle; how one billion people in the world live in developing countries where civil war is part of everyday life; and how some children—without food, clothing, or family—have volunteered as soldiers as their only way to survive. Finally, Singer makes clear how the U.S. government and the international community must face this new reality of modern warfare, how those who benefit from the recruitment of children as soldiers must be held accountable, how Western militaries must be prepared to face children in battle, and how rehabilitation programs can undo this horrific phenomenon and turn child soldiers back into children.

Author : Grazia Prontera,John Buckley,Wolfgang Aschauer,Helga Embacher,Albert Lichtblau,Johannes-Dieter Steinert
Publisher : Helion
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : History
ISBN : 1911096915

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Children and War by Grazia Prontera,John Buckley,Wolfgang Aschauer,Helga Embacher,Albert Lichtblau,Johannes-Dieter Steinert Pdf

The amount of international research on 'Children and War' carried out by academics, governments and non-governmental organizations has continually increased in recent years. At the same time there has been growing public interest in how children experience military conflicts and how their lives have been affected by war and its aftermath. In light of the many brutal post-colonialist civil wars or 'new wars', especially in Africa and Asia, child soldiers have in particular gained increased attention. Simultaneously, since the 1990s, the history of the Holocaust and World War II has also increasingly been written from the perspective of children; those who speak out now and publish their memoirs experienced the Holocaust as children. A similar generational change has also taken place in the societies of the perpetrators: Germans and Austrians who experienced the war as children took over the role of war witnesses from the soldiers of the German Wehrmacht. Moreover, intensified focus on children's experiences and their strategies for dealing with what they went through is evident in Eastern Europe as well. In Children and War: Past and Present Volume II scholars from different academic disciplines, practitioners in the field, and representatives of government and non-governmental institutions present a further selection of studies in this sensitive subject from different angles and in various methodological ways. A number of studies investigate the difficult areas of recovery and reintegration both of child soldiers specifically, and children affected by armed conflict. Further sections examine Victims and Witnesses, Public Discourse and Education and World War II and the Second Generation.

Author : Emmanuel Jal
Publisher : St. Martin's Press
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2009-02-03
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781429918756

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War Child by Emmanuel Jal Pdf

In the mid-1980s, Emmanuel Jal was a seven year old Sudanese boy, living in a small village with his parents, aunts, uncles, and siblings. But as Sudan's civil war moved closer—with the Islamic government seizing tribal lands for water, oil, and other resources—Jal's family moved again and again, seeking peace. Then, on one terrible day, Jal was separated from his mother, and later learned she had been killed; his father Simon rose to become a powerful commander in the Christian Sudanese Liberation Army, fighting for the freedom of Sudan. Soon, Jal was conscripted into that army, one of 10,000 child soldiers, and fought through two separate civil wars over nearly a decade. But, remarkably, Jal survived, and his life began to change when he was adopted by a British aid worker. He began the journey that would lead him to change his name and to music: recording and releasing his own album, which produced the number one hip-hop single in Kenya, and from there went on to perform with Moby, Bono, Peter Gabriel, and other international music stars. Shocking, inspiring, and finally hopeful, War Child is a memoir by a unique young man, who is determined to tell his story and in so doing bring peace to his homeland.

Author : Nicola Davies
Publisher : National Geographic Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2020-10-13
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781536215939

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The Day War Came by Nicola Davies Pdf

A moving, poetic narrative and child-friendly illustrations follow the heartbreaking, ultimately hopeful journey of a little girl who is forced to become a refugee. The day war came there were flowers on the windowsill and my father sang my baby brother back to sleep. Imagine if, on an ordinary day, after a morning of studying tadpoles and drawing birds at school, war came to your town and turned it to rubble. Imagine if you lost everything and everyone, and you had to make a dangerous journey all alone. Imagine that there was no welcome at the end, and no room for you to even take a seat at school. And then a child, just like you, gave you something ordinary but so very, very precious. In lyrical, deeply affecting language, Nicola Davies’s text combines with Rebecca Cobb’s expressive illustrations to evoke the experience of a child who sees war take away all that she knows.

Author : Kati David
Publisher : Orion
Page : 210 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 1989
Category : World War, 1939-1945
ISBN : 1870805038

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A Child's War by Kati David Pdf

Children aged 5 to 10, from many countries, share their wartime experiences, describing their struggles to survive, their parents' sacrifices, and the human potential for cruelty as well as love. grade: 06-09.

Author : R. Kennedy
Publisher : Springer
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2014-02-13
Category : History
ISBN : 9781137319357

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The Children's War by R. Kennedy Pdf

British children were mobilised for total war in 1914-18. It dominated their school experience and they enjoyed it as a source of entertainment. Their support was believed to be vital for Britain's present and future but their participation was motivated by a desire to remain connected to their absent fathers and brothers.

Author : Mike Brown
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 144 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2002-07-01
Category : Children
ISBN : 0753156113

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A Child's War by Mike Brown Pdf

Author : Mike Brown
Publisher : The History Press
Page : 95 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2011-11-08
Category : History
ISBN : 9780752475905

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Child's War by Mike Brown Pdf

When the Second World War broke out in September 1939, it came as no surprise to the children of Germany: the Nazis had been preparing them for a war ever since they had come to power in 1933. To British children it was an altogether different matter. Children all over Britain were deeply affected by the war: many were separated from their parents by evacuation or bereavement; all had to 'make do and mend' with clothes and toys; and some even died while contributing to the war effort at home. In this moving and often amusing account, Mike Brown describes what life was like on the Home Front during the war from a child's point of view. His fully illustrated narrative includes details of evacuation, rationing, coping with gas masks and air raids, entertainment and the important - and often dangerous - roles of the Boy Scouts and Girl Guides. This photographic history pays tribute to the generation of girls and boys who grew up under the shadow of the Second World War.

Author : Ahmet Yorulmaz,Paula Darwish
Publisher : Neem Tree Press
Page : 140 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2020-05-26
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1911107291

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Children of War by Ahmet Yorulmaz,Paula Darwish Pdf

Fifteen generations of Hassanakis's family have been Cretan. After WW1, amidst rumours that Cretan Muslims will be sent to Turkey, Hassanakis worries he will have to leave behind his great love, the Greek widow Marigo, and his beloved homeland. He can't believe he will be sent to a country whose language he barely knows and where he knows no-one.

Author : Alan Pollock Alan,Bryony Thomson Bryony
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 32 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2019-05
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1910646415

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Wojtek by Alan Pollock Alan,Bryony Thomson Bryony Pdf

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