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A Long Way Gone

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A human rights activist offers a firsthand account of war from the perspective of a former child soldier, detailing the violent civil war that wracked his native Sierra Leone and the government forces that transformed a gentle young boy into a killer as a member of the army.

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A Long Way Gone, Ishmael Beah

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2008
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Language
English
Released
2008
Format
Paperback
Pages
240
ISBN10
0374531269
ISBN13
9780374531263
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First published
2005
Original title
A Long Way Gone
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A human rights activist offers a firsthand account of war from the perspective of a former child soldier, detailing the violent civil war that wracked his native Sierra Leone and the government forces that transformed a gentle young boy into a killer as a member of the army.