My War Gone By, I Miss It So
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| Rating | : | 4.99 (801 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0871137690 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 321 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 0000-00-00 |
| Language | : | English |
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It is a breathtaking, soul-shattering book, an intense and moving piece of reportage that you won't put down and will never be able to forget.. An extraordinary, personal look at modern war by a young correspondent who saw its horrors firsthand, My War Gone By, I Miss It So is already being compared to the classics of war literature.Born into a distinguished family steeped in military tradition, from his youth Anthony Loyd longed to experience the fury of war from the front lines. His harrowing stories from the battlefields show humanity at its worst and best, witnessed through the grim tragedies played out daily in the city, streets, and mountain villages of Bosnia and Chechnya.Profoundly shocking, violent, poetic, and ultimately redemptive, My War Gone By, I Miss It So is an uncompromising look at the terrifying brutality of war. Driven by suicidal despair and drug dependence, the former soldier left his native England at the age of twenty-six to cover t
"Good book" according to Polarbear. I've read a few books about what it was like to be in Yugoslavia during the war. Many of the books out there cover the 20,000 foot view of history, culture, government, and military strategy, the leaders, and the Western response. This book recounts the author's experiences traveling through Yugoslavia. Loyd was ostensibly in Yugoslavia as a journalist, but he freely admits he just wanted to go to a war. Instead of staying in the hotel sipping drinks with other Westerners, Loyd took to the countryside to experience the war. Loyd apparently was. Michael J. Muscato said Just when you thought you lived in a civlized world. Although it is easy to say that this is a book about Bosnia, the title says it all. This is a meditation on Loyd's witness to the sickening and senseless violence he saw in Bosnia and Chechnya, played off against his own admitted interest in being around such chaos and bloodshed. It has become a standard response to the Rwandas and Bosnias of the world to say "What could make formerly peaceful people, pick up arms and murder their neighbors?" Loyd shows that although he is repulsed by the killing, there lurks inside himself a part that is draw. Wrenching Richard R This is powerful writing. Poetic and introspective, a nose-to-nose look at the seductive horrors of the Bosnian war. Loyd, a British kickabout backs into a job as a correspondent in Bosnia, and finds addiction, terror, and brutality that leave him discovering himself as much as he examines the warring Bosnian tribes. Loyd is a cynic, not a gee-whiz war journalist, impelled to explore the crevices in the war where the people live and eschew the cozy journalists' tables at the Holiday Inn in Sarajevo. This is a "Heart of Darkness" account, dark
But after a while I got into the infinite death trip. The book is filled with firefights and mutilated corpses and is not for the squeamish. He had arrived in Bosnia a war junkie, just trying to figure out what was going on and sell a few pictures to newspapers on the side. I was delighted with most of what the war had offered me: chicks, kicks, cash and chaos; teenage punk dreams turned real and wreathed in gunsmoke." Loyd's big break as a war correspondent came when another British journalist was wounded. Quite the opposite. Loyd describes the war at eye level: detailing the way bodies look after they've been shot or blown up, looking through the sights of a Muslim gun trained on a Serb soldier, traveling with a French mercenary, a