My War Gone By, I Miss It So

Description

Nothing can prepare you for Anthony Loyd 's portrait of war. It is the story of the unspeakable terror and the visceral, ecstatic thrill of combat, and the lives and dreams laid to waste by the bloodiest conflict that Europe has witnessed since the Second World War. Born into a distinguished military family, Loyd was raised on the stories of his ancestors' exploits and grew up fascinated with war. Unsatisfied by a brief career in the British Army, he set out for the killing fields in Bosnia. 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. Profoundly shocking, poetic, and ultimately redemptive, this is an uncompromising look at the brutality of war and its terrifyingly seductive power.

Description

"Early in 1993 Anthony Loyd, jobless and bored after leaving the army and still in his mid-twenties, decided to fulfil a long-held wish to immerse himself in war. A lift in a friend's battered Skoda took him to Budapest. He then travelled on alone to Sarajevo, a city already locked in siege, to live with a Bosnian family in their shell-pocked apartment close to the front line. Until the war ended almost three years later, he would witness, often from a uniquely close perspective, the mutilations, murders and massacres of one of the most bloody, chaotic and callous conflicts ever fought on European soil." "My War Gone By, I Miss It So is a harrowing, important book about humanity at its worst and its best, as witnessed in the grim tragedies played out daily in the city streets and mountain villages of Bosnia and Chechnya. Profoundly shocking, violent, poetic and ultimately redemptive, it takes the reader as close as it is possible to get to the true meaning and cost of war in shattered lives."--BOOK JACKET.

First Sentence

There was a Bosnian government army sniper positioned in one of the top floors of the burned-out tower block overlooking the Serbs in Grbavica.

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Other Editions

• My War Gone By, I Miss It SoDoubleday1999-01-01
• My war gone by, I miss it soAtlantic Monthly Press2000-01-01
• My War Gone By, I Miss It SoHardcoverAtlantic Monthly Pr2000-01-01
• My War Gone By, I Miss It SoPenguin (Non-Classics)2001-02-01
• My War Gone by, I Miss It SoPaperbackBantam Press2006-01-27
• My War Gone by, I Miss It SoGrove/Atlantic, Incorporated2014-01-01