Mike Kallas
ASIN: B07ZBSMNYV
Publisher: unknown
Pages: N/A
Author’s IntroductionIn 1975, I was eight years old. I was living in a remote village in Lebanon, close to the border with Syria. That was when the Lebanese religious civil war started. In the first week of the war, our village was attacked, and my family and I became refugees.I lived for thirteen years during this devastating war that killed ten percent of the population and displaced half.In 1987, I finally managed to flee to the United States.For years, I have wanted to write a book about my experiences during the war. I am a technical person. I used to get very good grades in Math, Physics and other Sciences while I got barely passing grades in language, grammar, spelling and literature.English is my third language.But I still wanted desperately to tell my story because, so few people got to experience what I did. Combatants tell their stories of wars. Most war books and movies are ...