I wanted to be a war reporter - scrabbling around, exposing things. I didn't want to go to university, I wanted to get a job, but Auntie Beryl... →
Nina Bawden
I was born in a small suburb of Ilford in a rather nasty housing estate that my mother despised. She had grown up in the country, so when the war... →
In Turkey, we have lived almost everything that could be lived; war and torture... The war concept was consumed to its limits. But there is only one... →
Osman Baydemir
To win the war on terror, we must know who our friends are and where our enemies are hiding. We can't continue fighting terrorism using the same... →
Evan Bayh
If you were born in Britain after World War II, you see a continuous atmosphere of decline, moral and economic and political.
Stephen Bayley
I was one of those children forced into fighting at the age of 13, in my country Sierra Leone, a war that claimed the lives of my mother, father and... →
Ishmael Beah
What happens in the context of war is that, in order for you to make a child into a killer, you destroy everything that they know, which is what... →
For many observers, a child who has known nothing but war, a child for whom the Kalashnikov is the only way to make a living and for whom the bush is... →
In early 1993, when I was 12, I was separated from my family as the Sierra Leone civil war, which began two years earlier, came into my life.
There's so much focus and interest about what happens during war, but very little about what happens when people return to homes and communities... →