In a heart-wrenching, candid autobiography, a human rights activist offers a firsthand account of war from the perspective of a former child soldier, detailing the violent civil war that wracked his native Sierra Leone and the government forces that transformed a gentle young boy into a killer as a member of the army. 75,000 first printing.
- | Author: Ishmael Beah
- | Publisher: Sarah Crichton Books
- | Publication Date: February 13, 2007
- | Number of Pages: 229 pages
- | Language: English
- | Binding: Hardcover
- | ISBN-10: 0374105235
- | ISBN-13: 9780374105235