War Child

Author : Emmanuel Jal
Publisher : St. Martin's Press
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 52,6 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 : Karin Lowachee
Publisher : Aspect
Page : 464 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2002-04-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780759527676

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Warchild by Karin Lowachee Pdf

Karin Lowachee's debut novel is the engrossing story of a young boy's coming of age amid interstellar war, a riveting saga in the tradition of Orson Scott Card's Ender's Game. The merchant ship Mukudori encompasses the whole of eight-year-old Jos's world, until a notorious pirate destroys the ship, slaughters the adults, and enslaves the children. Thus begins a desperate odyssey of terror and escape that takes Jos beyond known space to the home of the strits, Earth's alien enemies. To survive, the boy must become a living weapon and a master spy. But no training will protect Jos in a war where every hope might be a deadly lie, and every friendship might hide a lethal betrayal. And all the while he will face the most grueling trial of his life... becoming his own man.

Author : Deborah Ellis
Publisher : Groundwood Books Ltd
Page : 130 pages
File Size : 51,9 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 : Samantha Nutt
Publisher : McClelland & Stewart
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Children and war
ISBN : 9780771051456

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Damned Nations by Samantha Nutt Pdf

The extraordinary humanitarian Samantha Nutt gives a bracing and uncompromising account of her work in some of the most devastated corners of the world - and a new, provocative vision for changing course on growing militarisation. It is a brilliant distillation of Dr Nutt's observations over the course of 15 years providing hands-on care in some of the world's most violent flashpoints. Combining original research with her personal story, it is a deeply thoughtful meditation on war as it is being waged around the world against millions of civilians.

Author : Sue Saffle
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2015-06-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781782386599

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To the Bomb and Back by Sue Saffle Pdf

Between 1939 and 1945, some 80,000 Finnish children were sent to Sweden, Denmark, and elsewhere, ostensibly to protect them from danger while their nation’s soldiers fought superior Soviet and German forces. This was the largest of all of World War II children’s transports, and although acknowledged today as “a great social-historical mistake,” it has received surprisingly little attention. This is the first English-language account of Finland’s war children and their experiences, told through the survivors’ own words. Supported by an extensive introduction, a bibliography of secondary sources, and over two dozen photographs, this book testifies to the often-lifelong traumas endured by youthful survivors of war.

Author : Annette Janic,Catherine McCullagh
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 388 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2016-03-05
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781925275605

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War Child by Annette Janic,Catherine McCullagh Pdf

War Child is a true story that spans 100 years, revealing agonising choices against the backdrop of Nazi Germany, the lingering effects of war, the 1950s Australian migration experience, and a modern day search .. Magdalena (‘Leni’) is an illegitimate child born in a small town steeped in superstition in pre-World War II Germany. Denounced as a source of shame by her devoutly Catholic grandfather and the narrow-minded townspeople, Leni and her mother eke out a living dogged by poverty and prejudice in a country moving inexorably towards war. With the advance of the Red Army, Leni and her family are stripped of their possessions and forced to survive on their wits, transforming Leni from a meek, cowed girl to breadwinner and protector. She becomes a member of the Hitler youth, while at the same time puzzling over the disappearance of her Jewish friend. Forced to leave school at 14, Leni is confronted with the terrible choice of submitting to secret systematic rape by her employer, or having her mother interned. When she falls pregnant, she is determined to avoid the hardship she endured as a child and marries her Yugoslav boyfriend and migrates to Australia. It is an arduous journey marred by the appalling conditions at Bagnoli transit camp and the enormous difficulties of beginning a new life in Australia. In researching her mother’s life after the death of both parents, Leni’s daughter Annette makes a startling discovery. With her dying breath, Leni’s confidante reveals another secret. A complex search that crosses three continents follows as Annette gradually unravels the web of intrigue that protects her mother’s ultimate secret.

Author : Maurine Murchison
Publisher : CF4kids
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1845505387

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War Child by Maurine Murchison Pdf

"War Child ... will help children connect with the past. They will read Maurine's memories and realize that Jesus Christ is the same, yesterday, today and forever" Carine Mackenzie

Author : Graça Machel
Publisher : C. HURST & CO. PUBLISHERS
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Law
ISBN : 1850654859

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The Impact of War on Children by Graça Machel Pdf

Graca Machel, UNICEF's special rapporteur, also scrutinises sexual crimes in time of war, the fate of orphans, the disproportionate suffering of children endure in civil wars, and their special vulnerability to such side-effects of conflict as famine, disease and social fragmentation. "The Impact of War on Children" is an urgent call to action-for the commitment and tenacity needed to protect children from the atrocities of war. Children present a uniquely compelling motivation for mobilisation, and an opportunity to confront the problems that cause their suffering. This book is complemented by 16 evocative photographs by Sebastiao Salgado, a documentary photographer of world renown, covering Afghanistan, Iraq, Palestine, Rwanda and elsewhere.

Author : Peter W. Singer
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 44,9 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 : Martin Avery
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2010-08-29
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780557539741

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Guitar War Child Hero by Martin Avery Pdf

An issue-oriented, contemporary story exploring a universal theme, with a compelling, unified plot and strong, sympathetic protagonists, well-researched, dealing with important historical subjects.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Dorrance Publishing
Page : 81 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2024-06-23
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781434947154

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War Child’s Love Song by Anonim Pdf

Author : Le Ly Hayslip
Publisher : Anchor
Page : 389 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2011-04-13
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780307790576

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Child of War, Woman of Peace by Le Ly Hayslip Pdf

The inspiring story of an immigrant's struggles to heal old wounds in the United States, this is the sequel to When Heaven and Earth Changed Places, Le Ly Hayslip's extraordinary, award-winning memoir of life in wartime Vietnam.

Author : Annelee Woodstrom
Publisher : McCleery & Sons Publishing
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Children and war
ISBN : 1931916209

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War Child by Annelee Woodstrom Pdf

Indoctrination -- May Day celebration -- Changes -- The Aryan -- Nazi exhibitions power -- Catching the Nazi fever -- Fall harvest -- One people, one Reich, one leader -- September 1939, World War II -- The war expands and home front efforts intensify -- The Russian front -- Children's evacuation -- January 1943, Regensburg -- Bombing casualties -- My last time with papa -- Victory lost -- Hell on Earth, October 1944 -- Tomorrow may never come -- 1945, going home -- War's end, 1945 -- Running from the enemy -- War's aftermath -- Revelations -- The gentleman soldier -- No more secrets -- Man's inhumanity to man, life goes on -- Crossing the line -- 1945 to 1947 coping -- Wither thou goest, I will go -- Another world, a land of peace -- Arrival -- Red tape before marriage.

Author : Tarah Brookfield
Publisher : Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press
Page : 270 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2012-05-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781554586356

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Cold War Comforts by Tarah Brookfield Pdf

Cold War Comforts examines Canadian women’s efforts to protect children’s health and safety between the dropping of the first atomic bomb in Hiroshima in 1945 and the end of the Vietnam War in 1975. Amid this global insecurity, many women participated in civil defence or joined the disarmament movement as means to protect their families from the consequences of nuclear war. To help children affected by conflicts in Europe and Asia, women also organized foreign relief and international adoptions. In Canada, women pursued different paths to peace and security. From all walks of life, and from all parts of the country, they dedicated themselves to finding ways to survive the hottest periods of the Cold War. What united these women was their shared concern for children’s survival amid Cold War fears and dangers. Acting on their identities as Canadian citizens and mothers, they characterized with their activism the genuine interest many women had in protecting children’s health and safety. In addition, their activities offered them a legitimate space to operate in the traditionally male realms of defence and diplomacy. Their efforts had a direct impact on the lives of children in Canada and abroad and influenced changes in Canada’s education curriculum, immigration laws, welfare practices, defence policy, and international relations. Cold War Comforts offers insight into how women employed maternalism, nationalism, and internationalism in their work, and examines shifting constructions of family and gender in Cold War Canada. It will appeal to scholars of history, child and family studies, and social policy.

Author : Laura Kina,Wei Ming Dariotis
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Art
ISBN : 0295992255

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War Baby/love Child by Laura Kina,Wei Ming Dariotis Pdf

War Baby / Love Child examines hybrid Asian American identity through a collection of essays, artworks, and interviews at the intersection of critical mixed race studies and contemporary art. The book pairs artwork and interviews with 19 emerging, mid-career, and established mixed race/mixed heritage Asian American artists, including Li-lan and Kip Fulbeck, with scholarly essays exploring such topics as Vietnamese Amerasians, Korean transracial adoptions, and multiethnic Hawai'i. As an increasingly ethnically ambiguous Asian American generation is coming of age in an era of "optional identity," this collection brings together first-person perspectives and a wider scholarly context to shed light on changing Asian American cultures. This multiauthor volume features a foreward by Kent A. Ono, a co-authored preface and introductory essay by the editors, 19 original artist interviews conducted by the editors, and original essays from Wei Ming Dariotis and the contributing authors: Camilla Fojas, Stuart Gaffney, Rudy Guevarra, Jr., Eleana J. Kim, Richard Lou, Margo Machida, Stephen Murphy-Shigematsu, Lori Pierce, Cathy J. Schlund-Vials, Ken Tanabe, and Wendy Thompson-Taiwo. Laura Kina is associate professor of art, media, and design at DePaul University. Wei Ming Dariotis is associate professor of Asian American studies at San Francisco State University. "War Baby / Love Child is an interesting, original, and innovative project that expands the field of Asian American studies by using visual art as a point of entry and analysis for the discipline." -Mark Johnson, editor of Asian American Art: A History, 1850-1970 "One of the strengths of this original volume is its holistic combination of interviews with premier fine artists along with the textual, historical, and scholarly context provided by established and emerging scholars in Asian American Studies." -Nitasha Sharma, author of Hip Hop Desis: South Americans, Blackness, and Global Race Consciousness