A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier
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| Rating | : | 4.58 (563 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0374531269 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 229 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2017-12-25 |
| Language | : | English |
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"Human Faces to Boy Soldiers" according to JoyfulLittleRiver. "A Long Way Gone" is actually the second book by Ishmael Beah that I have had the pleasure of reading. I initially fell upon his book "Radiance of Tomorrow" at the beginning of my book journey, and it definitely helped to set the tone in regards to my book choices.Like many things in the news, boy soldiers wa. It's hard to describe how much this story stuck with me Bunni Monroe I purchased my first copy of this book 3 years ago, and I have since purchased another after my mother borrowed it and loaned it to a friend who knows the author by association. We all agree- this book is raw and disturbing, but one cannot stop thinking about it for a long time after reading.The book starts o. and brutal honesty of the book makes me recommend it to anyone twelve years old or older “My squad is my family, my gun is my provider, and protector, and my rule is to kill or be killed.” This is the life, Ishmael Beah was forced to live. He was one of the estimated 300,000 child soldiers hopped up on drugs with an AKand brutal honesty of the book makes me recommend it to anyone twelve years old or older PCM “My squad is my family, my gun is my provider, and protector, and my rule is to kill or be killed.” This is the life, Ishmael Beah was forced to live. He was one of the estimated 300,000 child soldiers hopped up on drugs with an AK47. This is how wars are now fought in over fifty conflicts worldwi. 7. This is how wars are now fought in over fifty conflicts worldwi
From Publishers WeeklyStarred Review. This absorbing account by a young man who, as a boy of 12, gets swept up in Sierra Leone's civil war goes beyond even the best journalistic efforts in revealing the life and mind of a child abducted into the horrors of warfare. (Feb.)Copyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. Beah's harrowing journey transforms him overnight from a child enthralled by American hip-hop music and dance to an internal refugee bereft of family, wandering
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. This is a rare and mesmerizing account, told with real literary force and heartbreaking honesty."My new friends have begun to suspect I haven't told them the full story of my life. But until now, there has not been a first-person account from someone who came through this hell and survived.In A Long Way Gone, Beah, now twenty-five years old, tells a riveting story: how at the age of twelve, he fled attacking rebels and wandered a land rendered unrecognizable by violence.