!Check This!front matter). (12 up). Nonfiction, Autobiography, Anthology. These fourteen diary entries, some published for the first time, trace what it has been like growing up in the middle of war. Diarists are from across the globe, including Russia, Germany, Sinapore, Palestine, and Israel, among others. Readers view the brutality, horrors, and injustice of war through the eyes of innocent young people, most of whom did not survive. In the words of editor Melanie Challenger: “These diaries are the fingerprints of flesh, the traces of those hands that dared to hold a pen in wartime” (xxiii). chs