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  • Published: 27 January 2005
  • ISBN: 9780141936970
  • Imprint: Penguin eBooks
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 224
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Soldiers Of Light



'Bergner's journey is arduous, dangerous and brave - a journey in which both author and reader are irrevocably changed. Soldiers of Light is, in the end, a rare book indeed.' Aminatta Forna, Sunday Times

In this moving and unforgettable narrative journalist Daniel Bergner travels into the heart of Sierra Leone, a country torn apart by war. This is the story of the people he encounters in a realm of fire and jungle as they rebuild their lives: Lamin, who lost his hands to save his daughter; Komba, child soldier and sometime cannibal; Neall Ellis, the mercenary pilot with a conscience; Valentine Strasser the embittered ex-dictator; and the Western outsiders trying to save a land of startling beauty and brutality.

Shocking, often heartbreaking yet ultimately hopeful, Soldiers of Light is a story of survival and a haunting work of literary reportage.

  • Published: 27 January 2005
  • ISBN: 9780141936970
  • Imprint: Penguin eBooks
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 224
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