A Long Way Gone
A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier
Ishmael Beah
Biography
This firsthand account by Sierra Leone native Ishmael Beah gives insight into the ghastly, life-shattering experience of children enlisted as soldiers. Beah was only 13 when he was handed an AK-47 and sent off to the killing fields. A bracing memoir about a survivor in a world gone mad.
Released February 2007
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