With astonishing vividness they recall the sounds and smells, the faces and words of a world vanished for nearly half a century. They speak of a simpler time when "people mattered more," when "neighbors cared." Men and women from nations around the world have contributed their memories to this book. The words of former enemies and former allies meet freely across the barriers of time to create a docuent of great power. Effortlessly, these speakers weave together a testament to the courage, resilience, and humanity of children everywhere.
As they speak, we come to understand that this generation was bound together far more closely by their experiences of war as children than ever they had been divided by the barriers of nation and allegiance. 'Children of the Storm' is the raw material of history, one of those books that will be read and reread not only by our own time but by the future. The adult memory may play tricks, but the memories of childhood do not. Truth leaps of the pages. No one who reads the words can doubt, "Yes, this is how it was."