Title A long way gone : memoirs of a boy soldier / Ishmael Beah

Edition First paperback edition Published New York : Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2008

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Description 229 pages : map ; 21 cm Summary 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. 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. 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.--From publisher description Notes "Sarah Crichton books." Originally published in hardcover: New York : Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2007 Subject Beah, Ishmael, 1980- Child soldiers -- Sierra Leone -- ?́ƠBiography Child soldiers -- Sierra Leone -- Biography. Child soldiers -- Sierra Leone. SUBJECT Sierra Leone -- History http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85122351 -- Civil War, 1991- Sierra Leone -- History http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85122351 -- Civil War, 1991- -- Personal narratives Sierra Leone -- History http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85122351 -- Civil War, 1991- -- Participation, Juvenile -- Biography Sierra Leone -- History http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85122351 -- Civil War, 1991- -- Participation, Juvenile -- ?́ƠBiography Sierra Leone -- History http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85122351 -- Civil War, 1991- -- Participation, Juvenile Sierra Leone -- History -- Civil War, 1991-2002 http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh00004248 -- Personal narratives. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh99001714 Sierra Leone -- History -- Civil War, 1991-2002 http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh00004248 -- Participation, Juvenile http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh99004954 -- Biography. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh99001237 Sierra Leone -- History -- Civil War, 1991-2002 http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh00004248 -- Participation, Juvenile. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh99004954 Sierra Leone -- Social conditions -- 1961- http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85122361 Genre/Form Autobiographies. Personal narratives. LC no. 2006017101 ISBN 0374531269 9780374531263

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