Author of Bestselling Book on Child Soldiers to Speak at Wright State Convocation
August 18, 2010
August 18, 2010
KENT, Ohio, Aug. 18 -- Wright State University issued the following news release:
What is war like through the eyes of a child soldier? How does he become a killer? How does he stop?
These are among the questions raised in A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier, the critically acclaimed New York Times bestseller written by Ishmael Beah. It is a story of redemption and hope for a boy caught up in a civil war in the west African country of Sierra Leone.
What is war like through the eyes of a child soldier? How does he become a killer? How does he stop?
These are among the questions raised in A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier, the critically acclaimed New York Times bestseller written by Ishmael Beah. It is a story of redemption and hope for a boy caught up in a civil war in the west African country of Sierra Leone.