My War Gone By, I Miss IT So

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In realtà, non pensavo che importasse granché per chi o per cosa combattere, purché si indossasse una divisa e ci si battesse con coraggio. Loyd's fragmentary reports morph into first-rate war correspondence from Bosnia that places him into the great tradition of Hemingway, Caputo, and Michael Herr. Loyd's strongest writing is in his descriptions of carnage--of the sound and smell of shellfire; of the sexual release of blasting away with an automatic machine gun . Following the resounding success of my Locus Quest, I faced a dilemma: which reading list to follow it up with?

And from this comes remarkable stories that range from those of the ordinary families of Sarajevo trying to preserve some sense of normalcy while under siege to those of creative and flamboyant mid-level commanders of Croatian and Bosnian units as they engineer successful and unsuccessful attacks.Tuttavia, questo libro di Anthony Loyd è diverso dagli altri, esce in qualche modo dal coro: è diverso perché è particolare il suo punto di vista e approccio, da ex soldato diventato giornalista, così ‘dentro’ da essere parte di quello che testimonia e racconta. Loyd's strongest writing is in his descriptions of carnage - of the sound and smell of shellfire; of the sexual release of blasting away with an automatic machine gun … This is pure war reporting, free from the usual journalistic constraints that often give a false significance to suffering. by turns looking at the convexity of war in Bosnia and the concavity of the war going on inside the author, as he wrestles with questions as mundane as addiction and as exalted as theology. I read his story of war and addiction (to conflict and to heroin) with a sense of gratitude for the honesty and courage on every page' Fergal Keane, Independent 'Deserves a place alongside George Orwell, James Cameron and Nicholas Tomalin.

Since he's not interested in "the story," you won't learn much here about these wars that you haven't already read in the newspapers. May have some underlining and highlighting of text and some writing in the margins, but there are no missing pages or anything else that would compromise the readability or legibility of the text. Ryan Holiday is the bestselling author of Trust Me, I’m Lying, The Obstacle Is The Way, Ego Is The Enemy, and other books about marketing, culture, and the human condition. Exceptionally well written and a devastating reminder that there are still places where the particular hell of war is the everyday norm. It is about the ditch in which the soldier crouches and the ground on which he fights and maybe dies.We lived together for a long time,’ he said, looking out of a crack-spangled window, ‘we have no need to fight.

The author's first book, a vivid and haunting account of the war in Bosnia from 1993 to 1996 as reporter for the Daily Telegraph and The Times as special correspondent. But as a journalist/photographer (he's never clear about what, if anything, he's doing work-wise), when he gets his chance to actually kill a Serb, he doesn't.

How some Swedish peacekeepers backed off from the courageous move to free a score of Muslim prisoners from their Croatian captors after a visiting BBC team decided the scene was too dangerous to film. Over a three-week period in the autumn of 1993, the fate of Vareš opened before me like a perverted fairytale. Scoffing at the idea of objectivity, he lobbied against the Serbs and was embarrassed not to be shooting at them himself. a stench of blood, excrement, mortar-fire, slivovitz and human bestiality emanates from these pages' Ben Shephard, A readable copy of the book which may include some defects such as highlighting and notes.

Don’t get me wrong, you’ll learn a lot about the Bosnian war by reading this book, but it won’t be an analysis of political forces and tactical manoeuvres – this is a story of individuals, moments, sights, sounds and feelings.The way I read it was simple: Ant felt great conflict inside, and sought an environment that would reflect that externally, as an attempt to understand it. Loyd spares us nothing - not brains spilling out on the street, not his own bleak despair, not even the jokes - and he deserves a medal for it' Maxim | 'Magnificent .