Innocents Lost
When Child Soldiers Go to War
By Jimmie Briggs
(Basic Books, Hardcover, 9780465007981, 188pp.)
Publication Date: July 2005
Categories: Children's Studies, Ethnic Studies - General, Military - General
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Description
More than 250,000 children have fought in three dozen conflicts around the world, but growing exploitation of children in war is staggering and little known. For the last seven years, the author has been talking to, writing about, and researching the plight of these young combatants.











