My War Gone By, I Miss IT So

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If you were of combat age, meaning only that you possessed the strength to fight, kill and possibly survive, then you were conscripted into whichever army represented your denomination, Muslim, Serb or Croat. Anthony Loyd's first book is a vivid, haunting account of the war in Bosnia from 1993 to 1996, from where he reported for the Daily Telegraph and then the Times as a special correspondent. What stands out about Loyd is his genuine ability to draw the reader into the book and make his story come to life in the sense that the reader feels like they’re right there with him as he documents the war from the front lines, Sarajevo, tiny country villages, and dangerous back roads leading to and from the front. You can die doing the right thing for the wrong reason, or die doing the wrong thing for the right reason.

The sometimes verbose passages are justified in light of the fact that nearly every other war book is underwritten and under analyzed. Perhaps because he's not tied to the daily story the other journalists and photographers are covering, though, he does make use of the time he spends cruising around on the fringes of the fighting, discovering how tribal the Bosnian war is and how provisional the ethnic loyalties and the alliances between Muslims, Croats and Serbs are. You could take sides in Bosnia easily enough if you wished, but it never allowed you complete peace of mind.E dopo un po’ ti accorgi che quello che un tempo ti sembrava il fondo è ora un’altitudine verso la quale stai arrancando. Loyd witnessed one particularly wanton and cruel act as groups of Serbian soldiers bound the arms of some Croatian prisoners and then taped Claymore mines to their bodies connected by wires to their own lines. There's bloodred-vivid descriptions of the fighting, sure, but there's also the dark poetic insight of a man who's seen humanity at its worst.

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