My War Gone By, I Miss IT So

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The allure of combat and war as the medium to find oneself and something missing in life has existed since the dawn of humanity. But druggy ruminations are notoriously shallow, and an "existence is meaninglessness" POV makes for dreary reading. Don't shoot, don't shoot," the three soldiers cried out to their comrades as they staggered up the rain-sodden slope towards the Muslim lines at the end of the Novi Travnik. Like all stories about becoming a war correspondent, without the backup of any organization, this one has adventure details to spare.

That said, the book isbeautifully written and about as enlightening as you're going to get onthe real dynamics of this war - and all wars.The wounded correspondent asked Loyd to fill in until the paper could send a replacement, Loyd agreed and so started his first job as a journalist. We love our war heroes even if there is this underlying hum of death and destruction resonating in some of their souls. Loyd’s graphic descriptions of the ethnic cleansing in Bosnia, allow the reader a glimpse through a window into a world many cannot comprehend.

For the reader, this book allows the Bosnian War to be lived and understood long after the fighting ended. It was too much like the war was there for his entertainment and early on I wondered if I was going to be able to finish this book.

We had met in the city’s one remaining nightclub, the BB, a sweltering basement venue that afforded an outlet for easy pick-ups among Sarajevo’s youth as the war stoked desire with one hand while unbuttoning restraint with the other. In parallel with the author's story of the war, he also details his own personal difficulties, including a heroin addiction. takes no responsibility for the content or accuracy of the above news articles, Tweets, or blog posts.

I am very excited to learn that Actor Tom Hardy is set to star in a movie based on the Anthony Lloyd book My War Gone by By, I Miss it So.Leaving behind him the legends of a distinguished military family, he wanted to see ‘a real war’ for himself. This may be the book these wars needed--an angry, confused howl against the obliteration of all we consider humane.