In conflicts around the world, there is an increasingly popular weapon system that needs negligible technology. What are these cheap, renewable, plentiful, sophisticated, and expendable weapons? Children. This book provides an introduction to the child soldier phenomenon, as well as concrete solutions for its total eradication.

This important book is part of a passionate personal mission against the use of child soldiers, by the three-star general who commanded the UN mission in Rwanda. When Romeo Dallaire was tasked with achieving peace in 1994, he and his force found themselves caught up in a vortex of civil war and genocide. He left Rwanda a broken man, a story he told in the award-winning SHAKE HANDS WITH THE DEVIL. Now, in THEY FIGHT LIKE SOLDIERS, THEY DIE LIKE CHILDREN, Dallaire provides an emotionally daring introduction to the child soldier phenomenon, as well as concrete solutions for its eradication.