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They Fight Like Soldiers, They Die Like Children

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They Fight Like Soldiers, They Die Like Children
AuthorRoméo Dallaire
LanguageEnglish
PublisherRandom House: Hutchinson, Cornerstone. Bloomsbury Publishing: Walker & Company
Pages320
ISBN978-0-09-179632-7

They Fight Like Soldiers, They Die Like Children is a non-fiction book by the Canadian politician and former general Romeo Dallaire (and Jessica Dee Humphreys) about the child-soldier phenomenon.[1] The book contains a foreword by Ishmael Beah, an ex child soldier and author of A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier.

It was a finalist for the Mavis Gallant Prize for Non-Fiction from the Quebec Writers' Federation Awards in 2011.[2]

The book was adapted into the television documentary film Fight Like Soldiers, Die Like Children by Patrick Reed in 2012.[3]

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