Child Soldiers: From Violence to Protection

by Michael Wessells

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, children serve not only as combatants but as porters, spies, human land mine detectors, and sexual slaves. Nearly one-third are girls, and Michael Wessells movingly reveals the particular dangers they...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0674032551
• ISBN13: 9780674032552
• Release Date: March 2009
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Length: 302 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.1" x 9.1"