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A Long Way Gone:
Memoirs of a Boy Soldier

Ishmeal Beah
In conversation with Louise Steinman
April 5, 2007

At age twelve, Beah (now twenty-five), fled attacking rebels in his native Sierra Leone and was picked up by the government army. What is war like through the eyes of a child soldier? How does one become a killer? How does one stop?

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