Small Stories of War – Children, Youth, and Conflict in Canada and Beyond

Small Stories of WarChildren, Youth, and Conflict in Canada and Beyond\nAuthor(s): Barbara Lorenzkowski, Kristine Alexander, Andrew Burtch\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: McGill-Queen's University Press, Canada\nImprint: McGill-Queen's University Press\nISBN-13: 9780228016854, 978-0228016854\nSynopsis\nMany believed the twentieth century would be the century of the child: an era in which modern societies would value and protect children, sheltering them from violence and poverty. Yet this hopeful vision was marred by the harsh realities of migration, displacement, and armed conflict. \n Small Stories of War grapples with the meanings and memories of childhood and wartime by asking new questions about lived experience. Spanning the First World War to the early twenty-first century and featuring chapters about Canada, Australia, Germany, the former Yugoslavia, Rwanda, and northern Uganda, this volume asks how young people encountered and responded to armed conflict. How did children, yo.