A Long Way Gone Memoirs of a Boy Soldier
A New York Times Notable Book of the Year
A Time Magazine Best Book of the Year
A Newsweek Favorite Book of the Year
A Quill Book Award Finalist
A Christian Science Monitor Best Book of the Year
A YALSA Best Book for Young Adults
Winner of the Alex Award
My new friends have begun to suspect I haven’t told them the full story of my life.
“Why did you leave Sierra Leone?”
“Because there is a war.”
“You mean, you saw people running around with guns and shooting each other?”
“Yes, all the time.”
“Cool.”
I smile a little.
“You should tell us about it sometime.”
“Yes, sometime.”
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. Ishmael Beah used to be one of them.What is war like through the eyes of a child soldier? H...
Author: Beah Ishmael
ISBN: 9780374105235
Year of publication: 2007
Genre: Biography
Number of pages: 285
Reading time: 4 h. 45 min.
Formats: FB2, EPUB, PDF
