A Long Way Gone Free

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8 Hrs. 30 Min.

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This is how wars are fought at present by children, hopped up on drugs, and wielding AK-47s. In the more than than fifty trigger-happy conflicts going on worldwide, it is estimated that in that location are some 300,000 kid soldiers.

Ishmael Beah used to be ane of them. How does 1 become a killer? How does one finish? Child soldiers have been profiled by journalists, and novelists have struggled to imagine their lives. Only information technology is rare to find a first-person account from someone who endured this hell and survived.

In" A Long Mode Gone Beah," now 20-six years old, tells a riveting story in his own words: how, at the historic period of twelve, he fled attacking rebels and wandered a land rendered unrecognizable by violence. By xiii, he'd been picked up by the government army, and Beah, at heart a gentle boy, establish that he was capable of truly terrible acts. This is a rare and mesmerizing account, told with existent literary force and heartbreaking honesty.;

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Published: March 2007
LearnOutLoud.com Product ID: A024325

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