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Soldier Boys

Dean Hughes
Soldier Boys Book PDF

Author : Dean Hughes
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2015-07-21
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781439132142

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Spencer Morgan And Dieter Hedrick, one American, one German, are both young and eager to get into action in the war. Dieter, a shining member of the Hitler Youth movement, has actually met the Führer himself and was praised for his hard work. Now he is determined to make it to the front lines, to push back the enemy and defend the honor of the Fatherland. Spencer, just sixteen, must convince his father to sign his induction papers. He is bent on becoming a paratrooper -- the toughest soldiers in the world. He will prove to his family and hometown friends that he is more than the little guy with crooked teeth. He?ll prove to his father that he can amount to something and keep his promises. Everyone will look at him differently when he returns home in his uniform, trousers tucked into his boots in the paratrooper style. Both boys get their wishes when they are tossed into intense conflict during the Battle of the Bulge. And both soon learn that war is about a lot more than proving oneself and one?s bravery. Dean Hughes offers young readers a wrenching look at parallel lives and how innocence must eventually be shed.

Super Red Riding Hood

Claudia Davila
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Author : Claudia Davila
Publisher : Kids Can Press Ltd
Page : 35 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2014-08-01
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781771382830

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Super Red Riding Hood by Claudia Davila Pdf

Ruby loves to play superhero, so when her mother gives her a “mission” that takes her into the deep, dark woods, Ruby throws on her red cloak to become … Super Red Riding Hood! Nothing can scare her — except maybe coming face-to-face with a big bad wolf. What would a superhero do? A story of guts and girl power, this is a fun update on a familiar tale.

A Long Way Gone

Ishmael Beah
A Long Way Gone Book PDF

Author : Ishmael Beah
Publisher : Penguin Canada
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2013-07-02
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780143190363

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A Long Way Gone by Ishmael Beah Pdf

At the age of twelve, Ishmael Beah fled attacking rebels in Sierra Leone and wandered a land rendered unrecognizable by violence. By thirteen, he'd been picked up by the government army, and Beah, at heart a gentle boy, found that he was capable of truly terrible acts. At sixteen, he was removed from fighting by UNICEF, and through the help of the staff at his rehabilitation center, he learned how to forgive himself, to regain his humanity, and, finally, to heal. This is an extraordinary and mesmerizing account, told with real literary force and heartbreaking honesty.

Soldier Boy

Keely Hutton
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Author : Keely Hutton
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux (BYR)
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2017-06-13
Category : Young Adult Fiction
ISBN : 9780374305642

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Soldier Boy by Keely Hutton Pdf

An unforgettable novel based on the life of Ricky Richard Anywar, who at age fourteen was forced to fight as a soldier in the guerrilla army of notorious Ugandan warlord Joseph Kony Soldier Boy begins with the story of Ricky Richard Anywar, abducted in 1989 to fight with Joseph Kony's rebel army in the Ugandan civil war (one of Africa's longest running conflicts). Ricky is trained, armed, and forced to fight government soldiers alongside his brutal kidnappers, but never stops dreaming of escape. The story continues twenty years later, with a fictionalized character named Samuel, a boy deathly afraid of trusting anyone ever again. Samuel is representative of the thousands of child soldiers Ricky eventually helped rehabilitate as founder of the internationally acclaimed charity Friends of Orphans. Working closely with Ricky himself, debut author Keely Hutton has written an eye-opening book about a boy’s unbreakable spirit and indomitable courage in the face of unimaginable horror. This title has Common Core connections.

Boy Soldier

Gerhardt B. Thamm
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Author : Gerhardt B. Thamm
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 188 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2015-09-02
Category : History
ISBN : 9781476602325

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"As a 15-year-old boy I fought briefly in a war. My fight was neither noble nor heroic. I saw the horrors that no 15-year-old boy should ever see. I came into war purely by happenstance, and survived it purely by luck." Gerhardt B. Thamm grew up on his grandfather's farm in Lower Silesia, the hinterlands of Germany. In early 1945 this land, near the Czechoslovakian and Polish borders, became a battleground. The Soviets captured Lower Silesia in February, and Thamm, like many of his Hitler Youth high school classmates, was conscripted to fight on the Eastern Front until the last few days of World War II, experiencing firsthand fearsome barbarity and atrocity. Thamm's family was deported from Silesia in 1946 to West Germany. Gerhardt Thamm arrived in the United States in 1948. The 17-year-old Thamm joined the U.S. Army the same year and served more than 20 years as an enlisted man. "Maybe, just maybe, I fought in this war to escape the barbarity. Maybe I wrote this book to still the memories."

Child to Soldier

Opiyo Oloya
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Author : Opiyo Oloya
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2013-04-02
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781442664258

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What happens when children are forced to become child soldiers? How are they transformed from children to combatants? In Child to Soldier, Opiyo Oloya addresses these timely, troubling questions by exploring how Acholi children in Northern Uganda, abducted by infamous warlord Joseph Kony and his Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA), become soldiers. Oloya – himself an Acholi, a refugee from Idi Amin’s rule of Uganda, and a high ranking figure in Canadian education – is a scholar who challenges conventional thinking on child-inducted soldiers by illustrating the familial loyalty that develops within a child’s new surroundings in the bush. Based on interviews with former child combatants, this book provides a cultural context for understanding the process of socializing children into violence. Oloya details how Kony and the LRA exploit and pervert Acholi cultural heritage and pride to control and direct the children in war. Child to Soldier is also ground-breaking in its emphasis on the tragic fact that child-inducted soldiers do not remain children forever, but become adults who remain sharply scarred by their introduction into combat at a young age. Given the constant struggle in courts in deciding whether former child-inducted soldiers should be pardoned or prosecuted for their activities and conduct, Oloya’s eye-opening book will have a major impact.

Radiance of Tomorrow

Ishmael Beah
Radiance of Tomorrow Book PDF

Author : Ishmael Beah
Publisher : Penguin Canada
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2014-01-07
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780143191728

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Radiance of Tomorrow by Ishmael Beah Pdf

When Ishmael Beah’s A Long Way Gone was published in 2007, it soared to the top of bestseller lists, becoming an instant classic: a harrowing account of Sierra Leone’s civil war and the fate of child soldiers that “everyone in the world should read” (The Washington Post). Now Beah, whom Dave Eggers has called “arguably the most read African writer in contemporary literature,” has returned with his first novel, an affecting, tender parable about postwar life in Sierra Leone. At the centre of Radiance of Tomorrow are Benjamin and Bockarie, two longtime friends who return to their hometown, Imperi, after the civil war. The village is in ruins, the ground covered in bones. As more villagers begin to file back, Benjamin and Bockarie try to forge a new community by taking up their former posts as teachers, but they’re beset by obstacles: a scarcity of food; a rash of murders, thievery, rape, and retaliation; and the depredations of a foreign mining company intent on sullying the town’s water supply and blocking its paths with electric wires. As Benjamin and Bockarie search for a way to restore order, they’re forced to reckon with the pain of their past and the uncertainty of their future. With the gentle lyricism of a dream and the moral clarity of a fable, Radiance of Tomorrow is a powerful novel about preserving what means the most to us, even in uncertain times. It marks the start of an exciting new chapter for Ishmael Beah.

Rust: The Boy Soldier

Royden Lepp
Rust The Boy Soldier Book PDF

Author : Royden Lepp
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 148 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2016-04-05
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781608868063

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Rust: The Boy Soldier by Royden Lepp Pdf

Caught in the middle of an ongoing war, Jet Jones, a robot made to look like a boy and built for battle, discovers that there is more to him than he ever could have imagined, sending him on a journey to learn what is means to be both hero and human.

The Boy Soldier

Alexandra Filipowski,Hugh T. Harrington
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Author : Alexandra Filipowski,Hugh T. Harrington
Publisher : Westholme Publishing
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1594162646

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The Boy Soldier by Alexandra Filipowski,Hugh T. Harrington Pdf

Since its first publication over fifty years ago, the image of Private Edwin F. Jemison has attracted widespread attention from those interested in the Civil War and other wars. His likeness has been compared to that of the Mona Lisa, and it rivals Abraham Lincoln as being one of the Civil War's most recognized photographs. Despite the great interest in the photograph almost nothing has been known of the young man himself, and misinformation about him has circulated since he was properly identified twenty years ago. The authors have spent decades researching the story behind the photograph seeking primary sources, including material from Jemison's family, for accurate details of his life. The result is The Boy Soldier: Edwin Jemison and the Story Behind the Most Remarkable Portrait of the Civil War, the only biography of this young Confederate soldier. We first encounter Eddie as he travels from his home in Louisiana in 1857 to stay with relatives and attend school in Georgia. In the spring of 1861, after Louisiana had seceded from the Union, Eddie enlists in the 2nd Louisiana Volunteer Infantry. A little over a week after enlistment, and at some point having had his portrait taken, Eddie is sent to Virginia to fight in the greatest struggle this nation has ever endured. Over 150 years later the intrigue around his photograph is matched by the very peculiar accounts of his death, as well as the controversy of his burial location. The authors examine both issues to complete the story of the young soldier's life and death. -- Inside jacket flaps.

Boy Soldiers of the American Revolution

Caroline Cox
Boy Soldiers of the American Revolution Book PDF

Author : Caroline Cox
Publisher : UNC Press Books
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2016-02-10
Category : History
ISBN : 9781469627540

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Between 1819 and 1845, as veterans of the Revolutionary War were filing applications to receive pensions for their service, the government was surprised to learn that many of the soldiers were not men, but boys, many of whom were under the age of sixteen, and some even as young as nine. In Boy Soldiers of the American Revolution, Caroline Cox reconstructs the lives and stories of this young subset of early American soldiers, focusing on how these boys came to join the army and what they actually did in service. Giving us a rich and unique glimpse into colonial childhood, Cox traces the evolution of youth in American culture in the late eighteenth century, as the accepted age for children to participate meaningfully in society--not only in the military--was rising dramatically. Drawing creatively on sources, such as diaries, letters, and memoirs, Caroline Cox offers a vivid account of what life was like for these boys both on and off the battlefield, telling the story of a generation of soldiers caught between old and new notions of boyhood.

The Feldafing Boys: Uncovering My Father's Stolen Childhood at an Elite Nazi School

Helene Munson
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Author : Helene Munson
Publisher : The Experiment, LLC
Page : 362 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2022-05-24
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781615198603

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The Feldafing Boys: Uncovering My Father's Stolen Childhood at an Elite Nazi School by Helene Munson Pdf

A shocking personal memoir and new perspective on World War II, following Helene Munson’s journey in her father’s footsteps through the years when he was one of Hitler’s child soldiers When Helene Munson finally reads her father, Hans Dunker’s, wartime journal, she discovers secrets he kept buried for seven decades. This is no ordinary historical document but a personal account of devastating trauma. During World War II, the Nazis trained some three hundred thousand German children to fight for Hitler. Hans was just one of those boy soldiers. Sent to the elite Feldafing school at nine years old, he found himself in the grip of a system that substituted dummy grenades for Frisbees. By age seventeen, Hans had shot down Allied pilots with antiaircraft artillery. In the desperate, final stage of Hitler’s war, he was sent on a suicide mission to Závada on the Sudetenland front, where he witnessed the death of his schoolmates—and where Helene begins to retrace her father’s footsteps after his death. As Helene translates Hans’s journal and walks his path of suffering and redemption, she uncovers the lost history of an entire generation brainwashed by the Third Reich’s school system and funneled into the Hitler Youth. A startling new account of this dark era, The Feldafing Boys grapples with inherited trauma, the burden of guilt, and the blurred line between “perpetrator” and “victim.” It is also a poignant tale of forgiveness, as Helene comes to see her late father as not just a soldier but as one boy in a sea of three hundred thousand forced onto the wrong side of history—and left to answer for it. Previously published in hardcover as Hitler’s Boy Soldiers

Avenger

Andy McNab,Robert Rigby
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Author : Andy McNab,Robert Rigby
Publisher : Random House
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2008-10-02
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781407046976

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Danny and Elena are now working for the Firm, desperately attempting to track down the vengeance-seeking Black Star before more 'Angels of Death' suicide bombers are despatched. Elena is the key to discovering the bomb-master's whereabouts as she has already made Deep Web contact. The plan is simple - locate Black Star and kill him - at whatever cost. While Fergus is forced to remain in England, confined to a wheelchair as he recovers from his injuries, the hunt takes Danny and Elena to New York on a covert mission led by Marcie Deveraux. Despite Black Star's trickery and deception, the net gradually closes. Fergus travels to the US to help, but Elena is drawn into terrible danger, and only Danny can save her. Using the skills his grandfather has taught him and his own initiative, he must stop the avenging bomb-master from wreaking further destruction . . .

Payback

Andy McNab,Robert Rigby
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Author : Andy McNab,Robert Rigby
Publisher : Galaxy
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Fugitives from justice
ISBN : 1405662476

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Payback by Andy McNab,Robert Rigby Pdf

Danny & his grandfather, an ex-SAS explosives expert, are on the run, with their cover in Spain blown. Encouraged by the mysterious Deveraux, they return to London to confront their enemy in MI6, Fincham.

Boy Soldier

Cola Bilkuei
Boy Soldier Book PDF

Author : Cola Bilkuei
Publisher : Pan
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Child soldiers
ISBN : 033040377X

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Boy Soldier by Cola Bilkuei Pdf

In 1987, Cola Bilkuei, a young boy from the Dinka tribe in the southern Sudan, was forcibly recruited into Sudan People's Liberation Army. For three months, he and hundreds of other children from his tribe were marched from southern Sudan to a military training camp inside Ethiopia. Once they arrived at the camp, exhausted and terrified, they were systematically brutalised as SPLA officers began to turn them into child soldiers. The children were taught how to handle a rifle, how to fight and how to kill. Yet Cola refused to be brutalised. He knew there was a better life somewhere and he was determined to find it. After two years, he escaped from the camp and began an extraordinary odyssey down the length of Africa. Without money, a passport or official papers of any kind, he fled Ethiopia back into Sudan, from Sudan he travelled to Uganda, to Kenya, to Tanzania, and from Tanzania to Malawi, onto Mozambique, from Mozambique to Zimbabwe and from Zimbabwe to South Africa. Finally, after getting accepted into a UN refugee program in South Africa he managed to come to Australia in 2003 as a refugee. His journey from that military camp had taken him fourteen years, living illegally, relying on strangers for help and scraping a living at whatever he could do, as well as educating himself to read and write along the way. This book is the story of Cola's extraordinary journey.

Boy Soldier

Andy McNab,Robert Rigby
Boy Soldier Book PDF

Author : Andy McNab,Robert Rigby
Publisher : Random House
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2008-10-02
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781407046938

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Boy Soldier by Andy McNab,Robert Rigby Pdf

Gripping, action-packed SAS thriller from the best-selling author of BRAVO TWO ZERO. Ideal for adventure-seeking readers. Danny Watts's grandfather, Fergus, was a traitor. One of the worst sort. An SAS explosives expert who betrayed his country and his Regiment for money. Drug money. He was arrested and left to rot and die in a Colombian jail. At least, that's what seventeen-year-old Danny is told when his hopes of becoming a soldier are destroyed for ever. But he knows something the army doesn't seem to know. Fergus Watts is alive and in the UK, living in secret under an assumed name - but where? Fergus is Danny's only living relative. Burning with fury and desire for revenge, Danny sets out to track down his grandfather and expose him. In doing so he sets in train an explosive sequence of events which throw Danny and Fergus together on the run from the people who want Fergus, and now Danny, dead. Packed with breathtaking action, SAS procedures and surveillance and survival techniques, this is a fast-moving, action-packed thriller for teenagers.