A review by kspencerinskeep
A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier by Ishmael Beah

5.0

An excellent acount of Ishmael Beah's experiences as a child soldier in Sierra Leone. When he is 12 the war comes to his small village and he, his brother and several friends escape and wander the bush trying to stay alive. At 13, he is conscripted into the national army and used as a child soldier to kill or be killed. This is an extraordinary account of the horrifying experiences that happen across the world - and so far removed from our cushy lives in the "first world".