01433 a2200253 4500 117022 9780374531263 broch. eng [Fic] Beah, Ishmael Memoirs of a boy soldier 1st ed. 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 1 2 4 6 10 11 14 16 17 19 31 Children soldiers - Sierra Leone 000028/000028cb.jpg DLC BR-BrIDEA P Year 9 [Fic] BEA A long way gone memoirs of a boy soldier Ishmael Beah New York Sarah Crichton Books 2007 229 pages map 22 cm BK 0 0 ddc 0 0 12.28 12.28 2021-03-02 0 P Year 9 [Fic] BEA 00053632SSW 2024-01-23 14:59:17 2024-01-23 BK 117022 117022