"This deeply disturbing but brilliant collection will be a challenge to a burgeoning literature on children in war situations ... especially] to those who wish to make a black and white distinction between children and adults." -Children, Youth and Environments

War leads not just to widespread death but also to extensive displacement, overwhelming fear, and economic devastation. It weakens social ties, threatens household survival and undermines the family's capacity to care for its most vulnerable members. Every year it kills and maims countless numbers of young people,...