My War Gone By, I Miss It So
Publisher: Doubleday
Published: 1999
Language: eng
Number of pages: 309
ISBN-13: 9780385410014
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.
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.