A story in the Australian newspaper claims that there may be factual errors in A Long Way Gone, the bestselling memoir by Ishmael Beah (Fiourth Estate). In the book, Beah writes that he was forced into becoming a child soldier in Sierra Leone at the age of 12; however, the Australian claims that significant events he refers to happened up to two years after he says they did. For full details, click here.

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