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.

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 ...