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My War Gone By, I Miss It So
My War Gone By, I Miss It So | Anthony Loyd
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Born to a distinguished family steeped in military tradition, raised on stories of wartime and ancestral heroes, Anthony Loyd longed to experience war from the front lines—so he left England at the age of twenty-six to document the conflict in Bosnia. For the following three years he witnessed the killings of one of the most callous and chaotic clashes on European soil, in the midst of a lethal struggle among the Serbs, Croatians, and Bosnian Muslims. Addicted to the adrenaline of armed combat, he returned home to wage a longstanding personal battle against substance abuse. These harrowing accounts from the trenches show humanity at its worst and best, through daily tragedies in city streets and mountain villages during Yugoslavia’s brutal dissolution. Shocking, violent, yet lyrical and ultimately redemptive, this book is a breathtaking feat of reportage, and an uncompromising look at the terrifyingly seductive power of war.
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Berryfan
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Excellent work. If you want a journalists take on both the Yugoslav civil war and (to a much lesser extent) Chechnya, this is the one. He looks at the incalculable cost of war on everyone while tying the horrors to particular places and times. In the vein of Herrs “Dispatches “.

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Anthony Loyd became an international correspondent & traveled to ex-Yugoslavia in the midst of war in 1993 & saw the very worst, & best, of humanity. My uncle was there as a journalist as well, & gave me this book when I was older, with the note, "This may make my world a little easier to understand." It didn't, but I'm grateful he shared it with me. I traveled to Bosnia, Croatia, & Serbia years later. #war #ReadingResolutions

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Alisnazzy
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For #recommendsday the first of three memoirs about the Bosnian War I would implore everyone to read. (I'll post the others later). This one also deals slightly with the author's drug addiction which was heightened due to the effect of being a war correspondent during the Bosnian War.

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