My War Gone By, I Miss IT So

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War becomes your world, all you think of while finding oneself unable to relate to home as everything pulls you back to the raw emotions felt in combat. He left behind a damaged, distinguished military family and swapped one kind of addiction for another; drink and drugs for the adrenaline of combat. Variety is the spice of life, so I’ve decided to diversify and pursue six different lists simultaneously.

Loyd] has written an account of its horrors that will wipe out any thoughts you might have had that we have reached the limit of the worst human nature has to offer. But druggy ruminations are notoriously shallow, and an "existence is meaninglessness" POV makes for dreary reading.Then the vibe would rip into another part of the room, and that would suddenly convulse into activity and noise. The author's first book, a vivid and haunting account of the war in Bosnia from 1993 to 1996 as reporter for the Daily Telegraph and The Times as special correspondent. The bodies had been looted and ID cards were scattered all over; sometimes the faces were almost unrecognizable as war changed them. I was delighted with most of what the war had offered me: chicks, kicks, cash and chaos; teenage punk dreams turned real and wreathed in gun smoke. A raw and ragged book for a war that officially announced to the world that what’s old is new in conflict: war fought between neighbors divided by religion or ethnicity, and fought hand to hand.

If you stuck around long enough, the dead and wounded piled up so quickly they squeezed one another off the narrow platforms of your memory. The men approaching them were their own, captured days earlier during a dawn infiltration of the Muslim lines by the HVO. Nonsense writing style ensures you appreciate the true and horrifying experience of being on the frontlines in war torn Bosnia and the affects on innocent people whose only crime is their religious beliefs.In fact, I think we’ll see Loyd continue to find resonance as the next generation tries to make sense of the wars of their parents.

People who have lived together in harmony for generations suddenly found themselves on opposite sides of conflict they could barely understand. One of my favorite parts, for example, was Loyd's description of the fighters of the Croat HOS militia who fought the Serbs at the frontline by day and partied in happening bars by night. Leaving behind him the legends of a distinguished military family, he wanted to see ‘a real war’ for himself.

We love our war heroes even if there is this underlying hum of death and destruction resonating in some of their souls. I have nowhere read a more vivid account of frontline fear and survival' Martin Bell, The Times 'An astonishing book . Looking for a guide to help him find the house a contact in London had provided, he soon found one who was more than happy to help, insisting that no remuneration was necessary — indeed, Loyd discovered that despite outside world assumptions of universal hatred, his experience was that as long as religion, politics, and war were not mentioned, the residents would s soon adopt any stranger as almost a member of the family.

And from this comes remarkable stories that range from those of the ordinary families of Sarajevo trying to preserve some sense of normalcy while under siege to those of creative and flamboyant mid-level commanders of Croatian and Bosnian units as they engineer successful and unsuccessful attacks. Loyd’s internal struggles to process the powerful emotions produced from war pulled him down a self-destructive path where he was eventually “.A former infantry officer, he left the British army after the First Gulf War and went to live in Bosnia.