Long Way Gone Memoirs of a Boy Soldier

Name: Long Way Gone Memoirs of a Boy Soldier
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ISBN: 9780374105235

ISBN-10: 0374105235

ISBN-13: 9780374105235

Edition: 2007

Authors: Ishmael Beah

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""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.""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? How does one become a killer? How does one stop? Child…

Book details

List price: $27.00
Copyright year: 2007
Publisher: Farrar, Straus & Giroux
Publication date: 2/13/2007
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 240
Size: 6.00" wide x 8.50" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 0.792
Language: English