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Books are listed in order of year of publication - newest titles are at the top. There are 14 books in this booklist
£10.99 hardback (2017) - ISBN 13: 9781471169557 | ISBN 10: 1471169553
When eight-year-old Bana Alabed took to Twitter to describe the horrors she and her family were experiencing in war-torn Syria, her heartrending messages touched the world and gave a voice to millions of innocent children. Bana’s happy chi ... more
View book details£10.00 paperback (2016) - ISBN 13: 9781908041340 | ISBN 10: 190804134x
A close-up portrait of children caught up in the Syria conflict. It brings together poems, pictures (previously displayed at the ‘From Syria With Love’ exhibition) and stories from young people living in a Syrian refugee camp in Lebanon, alongsid ... more
View book details£7.99 paperback (2016) - ISBN 13: 9781445145655 | ISBN 10: 1445145650
If there was ever a book to make you sit up and pay attention, then Child Soldier is it. Â Michel Chikwanine was only five-years-old when he was abducted from outside his school by rebel soldiers in The Democratic Republic of Congo. Child Soldier ... more
View book details£8.99 paperback (2016) - ISBN 13: 9781760293260 | ISBN 10: 1760293261
In 1987, 17-year old Niromi de Soyza shocked her middle-class Sri Lankan family by joining the Tamil Tigers. Equipped with a rifle and cyanide capsule she was one of the rebels' first female soldiers. Now married and living in suburban Sydney, this i ... more
View book details£9.99 paperback (2015) - ISBN 13: 9780241964033 | ISBN 10: 0241964032
Warsaw Boy is the remarkable true story of a sixteen-year old boy soldier in war-torn Poland. "The best-ever account of what is was like to be young and fighting in the Warsaw Rising"(Neal Ascherson, Sunday Herald, Books of the Year) Poland ... more
View book details£20.00 hardback (2014) - ISBN 13: 9780349004327 | ISBN 10: 0349004323
Wars are frequently justified 'in our name'. Militarist values and practices co-opt us, permeating our language, invading our dream space, entertaining us at the movies or in front of game consoles. Our taxes pay for those war machines. Our loved one ... more
View book details£21.99 paperback (2010) - ISBN 13: 9781594518263 | ISBN 10: 1594518262
The United States embarked on a war on terror that defended torture as a matter of official policy and furthered an already emergent culture of cruelty. As torture became normalized in the Bush era, it not only corrupted American ideals and political ... more
View book details£7.99 paperback (2010) - ISBN 13: 9781408805190 | ISBN 10: 1408805197
An astonishing story of one girl's journey from war victim to UNICEF Special Representative. As a child in a small rural village in Sierra Leone, Mariatu Kamara lived peacefully surrounded by family and friends. Rumours of rebel attacks were no m ... more
View book details£9.99 paperback (2010) - ISBN 13: 9780349121253 | ISBN 10: 0349121257
The extraordinary and inspirational story of a boy soldier in the Sudan People's Liberation Army. Emmanuel Jal was seven years old when Sudan's bloody civil war separated him from everything he knew. Believing he was being sent to school, Emmanue ... more
View book details£25.95 paperback (2009) - ISBN 13: 9780674032552 | ISBN 10: 0674032551
Compelling and humane, this book reveals the lives of the 300,000 child soldiers around the world, challenging stereotypes of them as predators or a lost generation. Kidnapped or lured by the promise of food, protection, revenge, or a better life, ch ... more
View book details£8.99 paperback (2009) - ISBN 13: 9781846270314 | ISBN 10: 1846270316
Somewhere in the jungles of Uganda, there hides a fugitive rebel-leder: in charge of a ragged army of brutalised child soldiers and said to take his orders direct from the spirit world, he has left a bloody trail of devastation across his country. Jo ... more
View book details£8.99 paperback (2008) - ISBN 13: 9780007247097 | ISBN 10: 0007247095
The first-person account of a 25-year-old who fought in the war in Sierra Leone as a 12-year-old boy. 'My new friends have begun to suspect that I haven't told them the full story of my life. "Why did you leave Sierra Leone?" "Because there is a war ... more
View book details£8.99 paperback (2006) - ISBN 13: 9781904456483 | ISBN 10: 1904456480
'Don't shoot the clowns!' As a circus performer in a war zone these are the fist words you need to know in English and Arabic, especially if you are trying to help wounded civilians in a city under siege. Don't Shoot the Clowns is Jo Wilding's accoun ... more
View book details£7.99 paperback (2002) - ISBN 13: 9780141315188 | ISBN 10: 0141315180
Since its publication in 1947, Anne Frank's Diary has been read by tens of millions of people. This Definitive Edition restores substantial material omitted from the original edition, giving us a deeper insight into Anne Frank's world. Her curiosity ... more
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