01253    a2200193   4500001000700000020001800007020001100025041000800036082001000044100001800054246002900072250001200101520077200113856002400885040001900909245006200928260004100990300002801031117022  a9780374531263  qbroch.  aeng  a[Fic]  aBeah, Ishmael  aMemoirs of a boy soldier  a1st ed.  aThis 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  u000028/000028cb.jpg  aDLCdBR-BrIDEA10aA long way gone bmemoirs of a boy soldier cIshmael Beah  aNew YorkbSarah Crichton Booksc2007  a229 pages bmap c22 cm