My War Gone By, I Miss IT So

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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; of the stroke victim's daughter who is raped while her father lies paralyzed and unable to help; of the Croats who wire up Muslim POWs with claymore mines and make them walk back to their own lines, forcing their buddies to shoot them to save everyone else.

Anthony Loyd is a British foreign correspondent who has reported from numerous conflict zones including the Balkans, Afghanistan, Syria, Libya, Iraq and Chechnya. We lived together for a long time,’ he said, looking out of a crack-spangled window, ‘we have no need to fight. He’s shone a light into the darkest corners of his psyche and smeared his beating heart across the page. These scenes, and others, give a certain character to the war and its combatants that will not be found in any scholarly work.The book was great but a bit much for me that I couldn't get certain scenes out of my mind for a while. The men approaching them were their own, captured days earlier during a dawn infiltration of the Muslim lines by the HVO. Staggered beneath the tales of a war correspondent are the diaries of a heroin addict attempting to make sense of his habit.

Loyd came there thinking he had the most sympathy for the Muslim side, but as he finds in war when one side commits an atrocity and then the other side responds with something equally horrendous it is hard to know which side is more morally right. These include his outstanding description of local Croat soldiers bringing their Muslim neighbors and friends to the protection of the UN to prevent their comrades from murdering them and the drunken reunion of rival Serb and Muslim commanders on the battlefield, boyhood friends pitted against each other by the war. His candid struggles with drug addiction offer the perfect companion to Loyd’s struggle with his addiction to war.H e went to school for journalism and then went to Bosnia with a vague plan to cover the ongoing war. He is now a special correspondent for The Times of London, for which he has covered seven other wars, including the conflicts in Chechnya, Afghanistan, Sierra Leone, and Kosovo. It was there--in the midst of the roar of battle and the life-and-death struggle among the Serbs, Croatians, and Bosnian Muslims--that he would discover humanity at its worst and best.

Discover the joy of reading with us, your trusted source for affordable books that do not compromise on quality. I have nowhere read a more vivid account of frontline fear and survival' Martin Bell, The Times 'An astonishing book . 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. Even in my deepest moments of fear, retreating or withdrawing it’s all the same, when I see those flashes of hope and swear never again, promise I’ll keep away the front or stay clean tonight, I know they are just illusions, flotsam in the river I pull myself up onto just so I can catch enough breath to last me for the next dive down. A former infantry officer, he left the British army after the First Gulf War and went to live in Bosnia.

His work has been translated into thirty languages and has appeared everywhere from the Columbia Journalism Review to Fast Company.

Ma trovo che la vera pornografia sia tradurre il titolo originale ‘My War Gone, I Miss It So’ in Apocalisse criminale. An up-close-and-personal account of a heroin junkie reporting from the front lines of Bosnia – the bloodiest conflict Europe has witnessed since the Second World War – who uses the high of war to kick his drug habit. It pulls no punches in its description of the barbarity of the balkan and chechen conflicts, and is all the better for it.Per anni in Bosnia, ‘dentro’ l’assedio di Sarajevo, in tante campagne militari, parteggiando apertamente per i musulmani. 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. His book is written with a tender view on gory and painful subject matters that take place in the mountains and cities of a broken world.