A long way gone : memoirs of a boy soldier
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A long way gone : memoirs of a boy soldier
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In the more than fifty conflicts going on worldwide, it is estimated that there are some 300,000 child soldiers. Until now though, there has not been a first-person account from someone who came through this hell and survived. Ishmael Beah, now 25 years old, tells how at the age of twelve, he fled attacking rebels and wandered a land rendered unrecognizable by violence. By thirteen, he'd been picked up by the government army, and Beah, at heart a gentle boy, found that he was capable of truly terrible acts.
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