A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier
- ISBN-10
- 0374105235
- ISBN-13
- 9780374105235
- Series
- A Long Way Gone
- Category
- Biography & Autobiography
- Pages
- 229
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2007-02-13
- Publisher
- Macmillan
- Author
- Ishmael Beah
Description
In a heart-wrenching, candid autobiography, a human rights activist offers a firsthand account of war from the perspective of a former child soldier, detailing the violent civil war that wracked his native Sierra Leone and the government forces that transformed a gentle young boy into a killer as a member of the army. 75,000 first printing.
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