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RECORD NUMBER: 5 OF 209Main Title | A long way gone : memoirs of a boy soldier / | ||||||||||||||||
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Author | Beah, Ishmael, | ||||||||||||||||
Publisher | Farrar, Straus and Giroux, | ||||||||||||||||
Year Published | 2007 | ||||||||||||||||
OCLC Number | 69423270 | ||||||||||||||||
ISBN | 0374105235; 9780374105235; 9780374531263; 0374531269; 9781439514122; 1439514127 | ||||||||||||||||
Subjects | Sierra Leone--History--Civil War, 1991-2002--Personal narratives ; Sierra Leone--History--Civil War, 1991-2002--Participation, Juvenile ; Child soldiers--Sierra Leone--Biography ; Sierra Leone--Social conditions--1961- ; 8976 polemology--(NL-LeOCL)077609166 ; Military participation--Juvenile ; Child soldiers--(NL-LeOCL)217565239 ; Boy soldiers--Sierra Leone--Personal narratives ; Civil wars ; Inbèordeskriget i Sierra Leone 1991-2002 ; Barnsoldater--Sierra Leone ; Sierra Leone--historia--1900-talet ; Children--Sierra Leone ; Sierra Leone--History--Biography ; Sierra Leone--History--Personal narratives ; Sierra Leone--History--Civil War, 1991---Personal narratives ; Sierra Leone--History--Civil War, 1991---Participation, Juvenile--Biography | ||||||||||||||||
Additional Subjects | Beah, Ishmael,--1980- | ||||||||||||||||
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Edition | 1st ed. | ||||||||||||||||
Collation | 229 pages : map ; 23 cm | ||||||||||||||||
Notes | "Sarah Crichton Books." |
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Contents Notes | 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. |