num_pages: 320
description: Winner of the Los Angeles Times Book PrizePeter Maass went to the Balkans as a reporter at the height of the nightmarish war there, but this book is not traditional war reportage. Maass examines how an ordinary Serb could wake up one morning and shoot his neighbor, once a friend--then rape that neighbor's wife. He conveys the desperation that makes a Muslim beg the United States to bomb his own city in order to end the misery. And Maass does not falter at the spectacle of U.N. soldiers shining searchlights on fleeing refugees--who are promptly gunned down by snipers waiting in the darkness. Love Thy Neighbor gives us an unflinching vision of a late-20th-century hell that is also a scathing inquiry into the worst extremes of human nature. Like Michael Herr's Dispatches (also available in Vintage paperback), it is an utterly gripping book that will move and instruct readers for years to come.
language: English
title: Love Thy Neighbor: A Story of War
titlecomplete: Love Thy Neighbor: A Story of War
genres: 20th Century, Politics, Historical, European History, Military Fiction, War, Nonfiction, History, Memoir, Journalism
ratings_count: 1319
places: Bosnia and Herzegovina, The United States of America, Switzerland
awards: awardedAt: 820483200000
name: Los Angeles Times Book Prize
category: Current Interest, awardedAt: 820483200000
name: Cornelius Ryan Award
publisher: Vintage