Chapters in this book

1. Front Matter i
2. Contents v
3. Acknowledgments vi
4. Introduction 3
5. Global Wars
6. Children’s Images of War from the German Home Front, 1914–18 33
7. Sensing War: Childhood Memories of the Wartime Atlantic, 1939–45 63
8. “What Am I to Do to Save My Children?”: Canadian Children in Civil Defence Planning 94
9. Family and Community
10. Children, Soldiers, and Correspondence in Canada’s First World War 121
11. Deconstructing a Canadian Military Family: The Taylor Mother and Son Remember the Cold War 141
12. From Wartime Refuge to Peaceful Hippie Haven: Generations of Youth on Grindstone Island 167
13. Telling Difficult Stories
14. Adolescents during Canada’s Afghanistan Mission 189
15. The Intergenerational Effects of Wartime Sexual Violence: Children Born of Wartime Rape in Northern Uganda 206
16. Politics and Emotion in Drawings by Children in Australian Immigration Detention 224
17. In the Spotlight
18. “Dear Daddy”: Children, Writing, and the First World War 258
19. Writing “Home”: Letters from British Child Evacuees Sent to Canada during the Second World War 266
20. Charting the Social Spaces of Childhood in 1940s Halifax 282
21. Surviving the Peace: Mine Awareness Education in the Former Yugoslavia 294
22. “My Two Families”: Experiences of Refugee Youth 300
23. “Donkeys Can’t Fly on Planes”: Intergenerational Storytelling and Artwork 308
24. Figures 315
25. Bibliography 317
26. Contributors 347
27. Index 351