A Long Way Gone

In a heart-wrenching, candid autobiography, a human rights activist offers a firsthand account of war from the perspecti... (more)

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. (less)