A Long Way Gone:Memoirs of a Boy Soldier. I read this a long time ago, but was reminded of it when MT was talking about the child soldiers in Uganda. I believe it is set in Sierra Leone.
Here is a blurb about it:
"A gripping story of a child’s journey through hell and back.
There may be as many as 300,000 child soldiers, hopped-up on drugs and wielding AK-47s, in more than fifty conflicts around the world. Ishmael Beah used to be one of them. He is one of the first to tell his story in his own words.
In A LONG WAY GONE, Beah, now twenty-six years old, tells a riveting story. 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. Eventually released by the army and sent to a UNICEF rehabilitation center, he struggled to regain his humanity and to reenter the world of civilians, who viewed him with fear and suspicion. This is, at last, a story of redemption and hope."
Great book. I too read it. Can't agree with you more. "Redemption and Hope"
ReplyDeleteThis seems like a very interesting book. I am sure that men who come from conflictive countries could relate very much to this story. I know some boys and men who have been to hell and back, similar to the story you are referring to.
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