Sie nahmen mir die Mutter und gaben mir ein Gewehr : mein Leben als Kindersoldatin

This is the heartrending account of the author's terrifying journey out of her family home and into the world of bloody warfare. Set in Uganda in the 1970s, China runs away from abuse at home at the tender age of 8 and gets drafted into Yoweri Museveni's National Resistance Army (NRA), fighting to depose Dr Milton Obote's regime.