A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of A Child Soldier by Ishmael Beah (Hardback, 2007)
"Why did you leave Sierra Leone?". "Because there is a war.". This is how wars are fought now: by children, hopped-up on drugs and wielding AK-47s. Ishmael Beah used to be one of them. What is war like through the eyes of a child soldier?.