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Khorramshahr, Iran, May 1982 - It had been the bloodiest battle of one of the very most brutal wars of the twentieth century, and Najah, a 29-year-old wounded Iraqi conscript, was in person with a 13-year-old Iranian child soldier who was ordered to kill him. Instead, the guy committed an amazing action of mercy. It had been an action that decades later would save his own life. This is a remarkable history. It is gut-wrenching, essential, and amazing. It's a battle history. A love history. A story of great moral sizes. An eloquent and haunting action of see to horrors beyond grimmest fiction, and a thing of towering beauty. Moreover, it is a tale that must be advised, and a richly textured view into an forgotten conflict and misinterpreted region. This is the great untold history of the kids and teenagers whose lives were sacrificed at the whim of vicious dictators and pointless, barbaric wars. Little has been written of the Iran-Iraq battle, which was being among the most brutal conflicts of the 20th century, one fought with chemical weapons, ballistic missiles, and cadres of child soldiers. The numbers included are staggering:
- All told, it claimed 700,000 lives - 200,000 Iraqis, and 500,000 Iranians
- Young men of armed service service age group - 18 and above in Iraq, 15 and above in Iran - passed on in the best volumes
- At least 80,000 Iranian child soldiers were killed, largely between the ages of 16 and 17
- The two countries spent a combined 1.1 trillion dollars fighting the battle
