When Ishmael Beah was 13 he was forced to join the army in Sierra Leone. He was rescued and slowly rehabilitated. But what does it take to turn a soldier back into a child? Show more As a boy ...
Ishmael Beah is a former child soldier, Unicef Ambassador and bestselling author. His memoir, A Long Way Gone, is an award winning account of his time fighting in Sierra Leone's bloody civil war.