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Author
Series
Fleet school volume 1
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
The story of the Fleet in space, parallel to the story on Earth, told during the time that Peter Wiggin and Bean are consolidating the Hegemony on Earth. The terraformed Formic worlds are open to settlement by humans, and the International Fleet becomes the arm of the Ministry of Colonization, run by Hirum Graff. MinCol now runs Fleet School on the old Battle School station, and still recruits very smart kids to train as leaders of colony ships and...
Pub. Date
2019
Language
English
Description
In a battle against the klaxosaurs only the children, classified as parasites, are humanity's hope in this dying world. Fighting in mechanized suits known as FRANXX, parasites are grouped up in male and female pairs to face the monstrous creatures. Hiro was once a prodigy FRANXX pilot. But when he gives up the fight, he meets Zero Two, the girl with the horns, and finds a new reason to keep going.
43) Our war
Author
Publisher
Orbit
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
"A prescient and gripping novel of a second American civil war, and the children caught in the conflict, forced to fight. Our children are our soldiers. After his impeachment, the president of the United States refuses to leave office, and the country erupts into a fractured and violent war. Orphaned by the fighting and looking for a home, 10-year-old Hannah Miller joins a citizen militia in a besieged Indianapolis. In the Free Women militia, Hannah...
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
The nightmare of war is seen through the eyes of one of its most tragic casualties, a child soldier, in this harrowing vision of innocence lost from Cary Joji Fukunaga. Based on the acclaimed novel by Uzodinma Iweala and starring Idris Elba.
49) The color of grace: how one woman's brokenness brought healing and hope to child survivors of war
Author
Publisher
Howard Books, a division of Simon & Schuster, Inc
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
"The pain of a middle-class white woman in rural America and that of war-ravaged children in Africa find common ground in their shame, their self-loathing, and their hopelessness. Author Bethany Haley is the woman behind the non-profit organization Exile International, which nurtures rescued children--innocent little boys who are forced to kill, maim, and rape; and defenseless young girls who are abducted as sex slaves for the army. The Kony 2012...
51) Uganda rising
Publisher
Mindset Media
Pub. Date
c2006
Language
English
Description
This documentary examines the situation in Northern Uganda, a region devastated by a civil war between Yoweri Museveni's government forces and the rebel group known as the Lord's Resistance Army (LRA). This war has been characterised by the extreme brutality of the LRA and in particular the abduction of over twenty-five thousand children. These children are then forced into committing atrocities or put into military combat. In addition, over one and...
53) Soldier child
Publisher
Cinema Libre
Pub. Date
2005
Language
English
Description
Documents the rehabilitative efforts put forth by the people of Northern Uganda for the children soldiers who have escaped from the army of Acholi rebel leader, Joseph Kony.
Author
Language
English
Description
However unthinkable child-soldiers may be within a generalized conception of childhood, they are not imaginary figures; rather, they are a constant in almost every armed conflict around the world. The participation of children in wars may question the idea of childhood as a "once-upon-a-time story with a happy and predictable ending," disrupting the (natural) idea of a protected and innocent childhood and also eliciting fear, uncertainty, revulsion,...
57) Sierra Leone: Revolutionary United Front: Blood Diamonds, Child Soldiers and Cannibalism, 1991–2002
Author
Language
English
Description
Sierra Leones eleven-year guerrilla war that left 200,000 people dead was brief, bloody and mindlessly brutal. It was also the second African war in which mercenaries were hired to counter some of the worst atrocities that Africa had on offer. By the time it ended in 2002, several groups of mercenaries including an air wing equipped with a pair of ageing Mi-24 helicopter gunships and backed by the British Army and the Royal Navy played significant...
Author
Language
English
Description
Richard Opio has neither the look of a cold-blooded killer nor the heart of one. Yet as his mother and father lay on the ground with their hands tied, Richard used the blunt end of an ax to crush their skulls. He was ordered to do this by a unit commander of the Lord's Resistance Army, a rebel group that has terrorized northern Uganda for twenty years. The memory racks Richards's slender body as he wipes away tears. For more than twenty years, beginning...
Series
Criterion collection volume 1091
Publisher
The Criterion Collection, Netflix
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
The nightmare of war is seen through the eyes of one of its most tragic casualties, a child soldier, in this harrowing vision of innocence lost from Cary Joji Fukunaga. Based on the acclaimed novel by Uzodinma Iweala and starring Idris Elba.
60) To zenzi
Author
Publisher
New Issues Poetry & Prose
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
To Zenzi is the extraordinary story of Tobias Koertig's odyssey through the apocalypse of Berlin in 1945. An orphaned thirteen-year-old who loves to draw, Tobias is coerced into joining the German youth army in the last desperate weeks of the war. Mistaken for a hero on the Eastern Front, he receives an Iron Cross from Hitler himself, who discovers the boy's cartoons and appoints Tobias to sketch pictures of the ruined city.Shuttling between the insanity...