A former child soldier from Sierra Leone has written a vivid, first-person account of fighting in his country's civil war in the early 1990s. The book, A Long Way Gone - Memoirs of a Boy Soldier - was released today. The author is 26-year-old Ishmael Beah. Prue Clarke caught up with him at his home in New York City on the eve of his international book tour. Here's his story of humanity lost and re-gained.

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