LoginA Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier
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This is how wars are fought now: by children, hopped-up on drugs and wielding AK-47s. Children have become soldiers of choice. In the more than fifty conflicts going on worldwide, it is estimated that there are some 300,000 child soldiers. Ishmael Beah used to be one of them.
What is war like through the eyes of a child soldier? How does one become a killer? How does one stop? Child soldiers have been profiled by journalists, and novelists have struggled to imagine their lives. But until now, there has not been a first-person account from someone who came through this hell and survived.
In A Long Way Gone, Beah, now twenty-fi
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Manufacturer: Sarah Crichton Books
Release date: 5 August 2008
ISBN-10 : 0374531269 | ISBN-13: 9780374531263
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