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cyrnel · 04-01-2007, 12:35 PM

I caught a brief interview with an ex child soldier from one of the SA militias. He's since moved to the US and wrote (or co-wrote) a book about their indoctrination and crazy daily lives. I'd swear it was titled something like "heart of a soldier", but my Amazon searches have failed miserably. Does this sound familiar to anyone?

Pip · 04-02-2007, 10:53 AM

A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier
by Ishmael Beah?

http://www.amazon.com/Long-Way-Gone-...5539928&sr=8-1

cyrnel · 04-02-2007, 11:28 AM

That's it. Excellent. Thanks!

Pogue Mahone · 04-02-2007, 02:12 PM

You can (or at least you recently could) get that book at most Starbuck's stores.

04-01-2007, 12:35 PM	#1 (permalink)
cyrnel Adequate Location: In my angry-dome.	Looking for a book - a South African soldier's story I caught a brief interview with an ex child soldier from one of the SA militias. He's since moved to the US and wrote (or co-wrote) a book about their indoctrination and crazy daily lives. I'd swear it was titled something like "heart of a soldier", but my Amazon searches have failed miserably. Does this sound familiar to anyone? __________________ There are a vast number of people who are uninformed and heavily propagandized, but fundamentally decent. The propaganda that inundates them is effective when unchallenged, but much of it goes only skin deep. If they can be brought to raise questions and apply their decent instincts and basic intelligence, many people quickly escape the confines of the doctrinal system and are willing to do something to help others who are really suffering and oppressed." -Manufacturing Consent: Noam Chomsky and the Media, p. 195

04-02-2007, 11:28 AM	#3 (permalink)
cyrnel Adequate Location: In my angry-dome.	That's it. Excellent. Thanks! __________________ There are a vast number of people who are uninformed and heavily propagandized, but fundamentally decent. The propaganda that inundates them is effective when unchallenged, but much of it goes only skin deep. If they can be brought to raise questions and apply their decent instincts and basic intelligence, many people quickly escape the confines of the doctrinal system and are willing to do something to help others who are really suffering and oppressed." -Manufacturing Consent: Noam Chomsky and the Media, p. 195

04-02-2007, 02:12 PM	#4 (permalink)
Pogue Mahone Crazy Location: Denver, Colorado	You can (or at least you recently could) get that book at most Starbuck's stores. __________________ I still wave at the dots on the shore And I still beat my head against the door I still rage and wage my little war I'm a shade and easy to ignore

04-02-2007, 10:53 AM	#2 (permalink)
Pip Likes Hats Location: Stockholm, Sweden	A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier by Ishmael Beah? http://www.amazon.com/Long-Way-Gone-...5539928&sr=8-1