children

Chronicles the life of the Vietnamese girl whose image shocked the world when she was photographed in 1972, burned by napalm and running from her village; and discusses how the photograph affected American society's views of the war, how her life was changed after the picture was released, and how it still haunts her today.

Personal wartime rememberances by fifteen European children--sons and daughters of Jews, Nazis, collaborators, and resistance fighters.

Gertrud Schakat Tammen, 10 years old in 1941, recounts her memories of World War II as a German national living near Russia when the fighting between Germany and Russia began.

Anecdotes from the lives of children who have lived in the White House from the time of George Washington to the present.

Photographs accompany the account of the adventures of two Aborigine children who wander into the bush and become lost.

Recounts the story of Tuyet Son Thi Ahn, a girl from a Saigon orphanage who is airlifted out of Saigon in spring of 1975, and finally adopted by a Canadian family.

The author recalls her experiences when she and her mother were hidden from the Nazis by a Gentile couple in Lw?w, Poland, during World War II.

Translation of: Shirahata no shojo. The story of Tomiko Higa's survival of the Battle of Okinawa during World War II.

Chronicles the experiences of an orphaned Amerasian boy from his birth and early childhood in Saigon through his departure from Vietnam in the 1975 Operation Babylift and his subsequent life as the adopted son of an American family in Ohio.

Although their father is in a German P.O.W. camp, Paul and Marie are barely touched by World War II in Vichy, France, in 1942. But, when their friend Henri's parents disappear, the children decide to hide their Jewish friend from the Nazis and soon find themselves involved in the French Resistance.