As a teenager in war-ravaged Sierra Leone, Ishmael Beah was brainwashed, drugged and forced to kill. Now he works to rehabilitate child soldiers.

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 the age of 12. Pumped up by drugs, he was forced ...

Ishmael Beah, formerly of Sierra Leone and author of the book "A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier," talks to the students and staff at Brunel University in London, January 30, 2008.

Ishmael Beah, author of the book "A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier," closes out the 2008-09 season of the Rosamond Gifford Lecture Series at 7:30 p.m. Tuesday at the Crouse-Hinds Concert ...

NEW YORK (AP) _ Ishmael Beah, author of a best-selling memoir about his time as a boy soldier in Sierra Leone, disputed newspaper reports that he had exaggerated his war service, telling The ...

After best-selling memoir, Ishmael Beah turns to fiction. ... A Long Way Gone, about being forced into becoming a "boy soldier" in Sierra Leone's vicious civil war 20 years ago.

Ishmael Beah’s 2007 memoir, “A Long Way Gone,” was hard to ignore and impossible to forget. News reports about children conscripted into Sierra Leone’s civil war had shocked the world, but ...

When Ishmael Beah was 11, before the rebels reached his village, he thought of Sierra Leone's civil war as something distant and unreal. He was a bright kid, fond of reading.

Ishmael Beah, 26, recalls how shooting someone was 'as easy as drinking a glass of water' at meeting aiming to rehabilitate child soldiers and single out nations where they are recruited.

A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier By Ishmael Beah Sarah Crichton Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 229 pages, $22 We need not be reminded with the Iraq war still going on that the line dividing ...

As a teenager in war-ravaged Sierra Leone, Ishmael Beah was brainwashed, drugged and forced to kill. Now he works to rehabilitate child soldiers.

As a teenager in war-ravaged Sierra Leone, Ishmael Beah was brainwashed, drugged and forced to kill. Now he works to rehabilitate child soldiers.