A Long Way Gone
Memoirs of a Boy Soldier
by Ishmael Beah
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Recommended by 1 source and appears in Autobiographies and Nonfiction.
The devastating story of war through the eyes of a child soldier. Beah 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 became a soldier.My new friends have begun to suspect I haven?t told them the full story of my life.?Wh...
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Recommended by 1 source and appears in Autobiographies and Nonfiction.
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Edward Norton
“Just read a great book "A Long Way Gone" by Ishmael Beah. written by a former child soldier. really wrenching and eyeopening.”
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