Author
Ishmael Beah
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A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier
by Ishmael Beah
A Long Way Gone is Ishmael Beah's first-person memoir of being a boy soldier in Sierra Leone's civil war. It follows him from a village childhood at twelve through the army, drugs and killing, and into a UNICEF rehabilitation center. A hard book, but a rare witness account.