{"product_id":"books-a-long-way-gone-memoirs-of-a-boy-soldier","title":"A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eMy new friends have begun to suspect I haven't told them the full story of my life.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eWhy did you leave Sierra Leone?\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eBecause there is a war.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eYou mean, you saw people running around with guns and shooting each other?\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eYes, all the time.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eCool.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eI smile a little.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eYou should tell us about it sometime.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eYes, sometime.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis is how wars are fought now: by children, hopped-up on drugs and wielding AK-47s. Children have become soldiers of choice. In the more than fifty conflicts going on worldwide, it is estimated that there are some 300,000 child soldiers. Ishmael Beah used to be one of them.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhat is war like through the eyes of a child soldier? How does one become a killer? How does one stop? Child soldiers have been profiled by journalists, and novelists have struggled to imagine their lives. But until now, there has not been a first-person account from someone who came through this hell and survived.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn the #1 \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e bestseller, \u003ci\u003eA Long Way Gone\u003c\/i\u003e, Beah, now twenty-five years old, tells a riveting story: how 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis is a rare and mesmerizing account, told with real literary force and heartbreaking honesty.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"World of Books ","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53480705655057,"sku":null,"price":0.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/9781553653981.jpg?v=1777551260","url":"https:\/\/www.worldofbooks.com\/products\/books-a-long-way-gone-memoirs-of-a-boy-soldier","provider":"World of Books ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}