A footnote to the Voice cover story, which probed the veracity of some of Ishmael Beah’s claims, in the celebrated memoir “A Long Way Gone”: Beah describes an incident in which six teens were killed ...

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Ishmael Beah defends his memoir and goes home to Sierra Leone. Aug. 5, 2008 — -- Ishmael Beah wears the scars of Sierra Leone's civil war as his own. In what was once the poorest country on earth ...

When rebel guerrillas swarm into his village in Sierra Leone, Beah flees, never to see his mother, father, and brothers again. When the village in which he takes refuge comes under attack, he is ...

Ishmael Beah. Farrar, Straus, Giroux. 229 pages. $22. Ishmael Beah pulls no punches in telling his amazing and agonizing story of being a child soldier in Sierra Leone. As you read the spare and ...

WASHINGTON, D.C., United States, June 29 (UNHCR) - Ishmael Beah, a former child soldier from Sierra Leone, recently published his best-selling memoir, "A Long Way Gone." At the age of 12, Beah fled ...

Ishmael Beah has written a memoir about his years as a child soldier in Sierra Leone. Orphaned by the civil war there, he was carrying an AK-47 by... Ishmael Beah has written a memoir about his years ...

NEW YORK—Ishmael Beah, author of a best-selling memoir about his time as a boy soldier in Sierra Leone, disputes newspaper reports that he had exaggerated his war service, telling The Associated Press ...

This 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 ...

It is a great and wonderful pleasure to bring Ishmael Beah’s new novel to the attention of the local readers and fans of this remarkable writer. Of course, neither Mr. Beah nor his first book “A Long ...

Ishmael Beah, author of the memoir A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier, will speak at Clowes Memorial Hall Jan. 26, 7:30 p.m. as part of Butler University's Celebration of Diversity ...

Ishmael Beah’s publisher wouldn’t allow the Voice to interview him, so the Voice sought out the author himself last week at a public appearance in Manhattan. Beah, the elusive author of a ...