A Long Way Gone:Memoirs of a Boy Soldier is the first of two books written by Ishmael Beah. His second book, Radiance of Tomorrow, is a fiction book published in 2014 about two friends who return to their home village of Imperi, Sierra Leone after the civil war with the hopes of rebuilding the town and community.
For more on the experiences of child soldiers in both Africa and other parts of the world, try Jimmi Briggs' Innocents Lost: When Child Soldiers Go To War (2005), and P.W. Singer's Children at War (2005). For an alternative account of the civil war in Sierra Leone, read Mariatu Kamara's The Bite of the Mango (2008). Similarly, Emmanuel Jal's memoir War Child: A Child Soldier's...
