Results for "Childhood" in Military & War

War Child is a story of clarity. In this powerful memoir, Marine veteran Anthony Jacks traces the long arc of trauma from childhood to combat and beyond, revealing how invisible wounds shape the mind, body, and soul. Moving between the deserts of Iraq and the quiet isolation of coming home, Jacks examines what happens when duty demands what the heart can no longer bear—and how healing begins when a warrior finally lays down his armor.

Poland suffered terribly under the Nazis. By the end of the war, six million had been killed. On 1 August 1944 Andrew Borowiec, a 15-year-old volunteer in the Resistance, lobbed a grenade from a Warsaw apartment block onto some German soldiers below – he felt he had come of age. Over that summer Andrew faced danger at every moment. Wounded the day after his 16th birthday, he was captured as he lay in a makeshift cellar hospital. Here he learned a lesson: there were decent Germans as well as bad.

In the mid-1980s, Emmanuel Jal was a seven year old Sudanese boy, living in a small village with his parents, aunts, uncles, and siblings. But as Sudan's civil war moved closer—with the Islamic government seizing tribal lands for water, oil, and other resources—Jal's family moved again and...