A Long Way Gone By Ishmael Beah free PDF book download from here. “Ishmael Beah’s memoir, “A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier,” published in 2007, offers a deeply personal narrative of his life as a child soldier during the Sierra Leone Civil War in the 1990s.
When he was just 12 years old, Beah was forced to run from his village due to a rebel attack by the Revolutionary United Front (RUF). He roamed the devastated country until he was manipulated and enlisted into a military faction of the Sierra Leone Armed Forces. By the age of 13, he had been both a witness to and a perpetrator of numerous violent acts.
A Long Way Gone By Ishmael Beah Book Info:
- Publisher: Sarah Crichton Books
- Published: February 13, 2007
- ISBN: 9780374105235
- Pages: 211
- Size: 1.05