Stolen Voices - Tapa blanda

From a century that began with "The War to End All Wars", and has gone on warring into the next, comes a collection of diaries showing conflict through young people's eyes. Starting with 12-year-old Berliner Piete Kuhr in 1914, the diaries chart very different experiences of World War II - from a New Zealand gunner to a homesick Kindertransport child to a concentration camp inmate - followed by war journals written during Vietnam, the Balkans War, the Taliban regime, Intifada, the Israeli conflict and the Iraq war. From Austria to Moscow, Singapore to Bosnia, Israel to Iraq, young voices respond frankly to stark and terrible events, confiding their deepest hopes and fears and reflecting a common humanity transcending culture, faith and geography.

Zlata Filipovic's teenage diary chronicling life in war-torn Sarajevo was an instant bestseller when first published in 2003, and has been translated into 36 languages. Melanie Challenger has won several writing awards and is working on a war poetry anthology. Her libretto of Anne Frank's diary was performed as a choral work at the 60th anniversary Holocaust Memorial Day.