A Long Way Gone
Memoirs of a Boy Soldier
by Ishmael Beah
397 pages· 2008· ISBN 9781594132674
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A human rights activist offers a firsthand account of war from the perspective of a former child soldier, detailing the violent civil war that wracked his native Sierra Leone and the government forces that transformed a gentle young boy into a killer as a member of the army.
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