Full name: Love Thy Neighbor: A Story of War

Author: Peter Maass Year: 1996 Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: Non Fiction, History, Award winners, War/Military Culture: Russia Purchase/reserch links: Goodreads Barns&Noble Amazon LibraryThing ISBNs: 9780679763895 0679763899

Peter Maass from the center of the nightmare in Bosnia, a war correspondent's montage of images - eerie, grotesque, ironic, angry, absurd. A Serb and Muslim, friends before the war, exchanging gossip via shortwave radio hours before they will try to kill each other. The Serbian president coolly denying reports of atrocities that have been witnessed by hundreds. A battlefield doctor performing miracles of surgery without anesthetic. Drivers without headlights gambling their lives in the darkness of no-man's-land while schoolchildren scamper across Sniper Alley. The author takes us with him into the minefields of modern war with a fierce, vivid, and personal book.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. Similar books: My War Gone By, I Miss it So by Anthony Loyd To End a War by Richard Holbrooke Bosnia by Noel Malcolm The Fall of Yugoslavia by Misha Glenny Yugoslavia by Laura Silber They Would Never Hurt a Fly by Slavenka Drakulic Russia Against Napoleon by Dominic Lieven Russia's War by Richard Overy The Battle of Kursk by David M. Glantz The Great Gamble by Gregory Feifer The Serbs by Tim Judah Kosovo by Tim Judah The Impossible Country by Brian Hall 13 Hours by Mitchell Zuckoff WAR by Sebastian Junger Red Platoon by Clinton Romesha Confederates in the Attic by Tony Horwitz Indianapolis by Lynn Vincent Shattered Sword by Jonathan Parshall Citizen Soldiers by Stephen E. Ambrose