Bibliograph

A long way gone, memoirs of a boy soldier, Ishmael Beah

Type

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A long way gone, memoirs of a boy soldier, Ishmael Beah

Language

eng

resource.biographical

autobiography

Illustrations

maps

Index

no index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

A long way gone

Medium

large print

Responsibility statement

Ishmael Beah

Series statement

Thorndike Press large print basic

Sub title

memoirs of a boy soldier

Summary

In a heart-wrenching, candid autobiography, 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

resource.variantTitle

Memoirs of a boy soldier

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