A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier

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This is how wars are fought now: By way of Youngsters, hopped-up on medicine and wielding AK-47s. Youngsters have turn into squaddies of selection. Within the greater than fifty conflicts occurring around the world, it’s predicted that there are a few 300,000 Kid squaddies. Ishmael Beah was one among them.
What is conflict like during the eyes of a kid soldier? How does one turn into a killer? How does one forestall? Kid squaddies were profiled By way of newshounds, and novelists have struggled to believe their lives. However till now, there has now not been a primary-particular person account from somebody who got here thru this hell and survived.

In A Lengthy Manner Gone, Beah, now twenty-5 years vintage, tells a riveting tale: how on the age of twelve, he fled attacking rebels and wandered a land rendered unrecognizable By way of violence. By way of 13, he’d been picked up By way of the federal government military, and Beah, at center a steady boy, discovered that he used to be able to in point of fact negative acts.

 
This is a unprecedented and enchanting account, instructed with actual literary drive and heartbreaking honesty.

“My new pals have started to suspect I have not instructed them the entire tale of my existence.
‘Why did you permit Sierra Leone?’
‘As a result of there’s a conflict.’
‘You imply, you noticed other people operating round with weapons and taking pictures every different?’
‘Sure, at all times.’
‘Cool.’
I smile a little bit.
‘You must let us know approximately it someday.’
‘Sure, someday.'”

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