A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier (Thorndike Press Large Print Basic Series)
By Ishmael Beah.
Description
This is how wars are fought now by children, hopped up on drugs, and wielding AK-47s. In the more than fifty violent conflicts going on worldwide, it is estimated that there are some 300,000 child soldiers. Ishmael Beah used to be one of them. 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 it is rare to find a first-person account from someone who endured this hell and survived.In A Long Way Gone Beah, now twenty-six years old, tells a riveting story in his own words: how, at the age...
ISBN(s)
0786296402, 9780786296408
