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My War Gone By, I Miss It So
Location(s): Balkans, Bosnia and Herzegovina
Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
Era(s): Early 1990s
Anthony Loyd’s first book is a vivid, haunting account of the war in Bosnia from 1993 to 1996, from where he reported for the Daily Telegraph and then the Times as a special correspondent. However, what separates it from standard reportage is the war Loyd was fighting on a personal front, which drove him to seek war as a “final absolution of self-responsibility”. While snipers shot people indiscriminately Loyd, living on whisky-chased adrenaline, fought to understand the compulsion he felt to be there and struggled to shoot the pictures that were the pretext for his presence. It is this battle, set against the brutality that tore the Balkans to shreds, that gives the book its anguished focus and embattled majesty.
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