Ishmael Beah’s ‘Memoirs of a Boy Soldier’
Ishmael Beah has written a memoir about his years as a child soldier in Sierra Leone. Orphaned by the civil war there, he was carrying an AK-47 by the age of 12. Pumped up by drugs, he was forced to kill or be killed.
Further Reading on Current Events
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