01889cam a2200313 4500 1018164839 TxAuBib 20231025120000.0 060523s2007||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 2006017101 9780374105235 hardcover : alk. paper 0374105235 hardcover : alk. paper (OCoLC)69423270 TxAuBib Beah, Ishmael, 1980- A long way gone : memoirs of a boy soldier / Ishmael Beah. 1st ed. New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2007. 229 p. : map ; 22 cm. "Sarah Crichton Books.". 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. 20231025. Beah, Ishmael, 1980- Child soldiers Sierra Leone Biography. Boy soldiers Sierra Leone Personal narratives. Sierra Leone History Civil War, 1991-2002 Personal narratives. Sierra Leone History Civil War, 1991-2002 Participation, Juvenile. Sierra Leone Social conditions 1961-