In the more than 50 conflicts going on worldwide, it is estimated that there are some 300,000 child soldiers. Ishmael Beah used to be one of them. In a rare and mesmerizing account, Beah tells of his experience as a child fighting a war in Sierra Leone.
Author: Beah, Ishmael · Original publisher: Sarah Crichton Books (Farrar, Straus and Giroux), 2007 (by Ishmael Beah) (ISBN 978-0-374-10523-5)
Tier 3 — Partial text + link. No text is hosted on Gary NOI. Read free: https://archive.org/details/longwaygonememoi00beah (Internet Archive lending copy — borrowable; IA item ID as recorded in Tranche A: longwaygonememoi00beah; no hosting rights).
