A long way gone : memoirs of a boy soldier /
Ishmael Beah
- New York : Farrar, Strauss, Giraux, c2007
- 229 pages ; 22 cm
"In A Long Way Gone, Ishmael Beah tells a riveting story: 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."