My War Gone By, I Miss It So

Name: My War Gone By, I Miss It So
Brand: Recorded Books
Availability: InStock
Author: Anthony Loyd
ISBN: 9781461811220

Author: Anthony Loyd

Narrator: Steven Crossley

Unabridged: 11 hr 48 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Recorded Books

Published: 11/25/2011

Categories: Nonfiction, History, World History

Synopsis

With elegance and unsparing honesty, special correspondent for The Times of London, Anthony Loyd records this harrowing account of modern war. My War Gone By, I Miss It So exposes the unspeakable terror, visceral thrill of combat, and countless lives laid waste in Europe's bloodiest conflict since World War II. Unsatisfied by a brief stint in the British army and driven by the despair of drug dependence, the author was searching for excitement when he set out for Bosnia in 1993. Nothing prepared him for the brutal life-and-death struggle he discovers there among the Serbs, Croatians, and Bosnian Muslims. As he writes of the shocking chaos, he finds a chilling purpose to his life as a journalist. Anthony Loyd has become an award-winning international reporter whose work is compared to the classics of war literature. With this powerful book, he takes an uncompromising look at the horrifying savagery and seductive power of war. British actor Steven Crossley masterfully conjures up the sights, smells, and sounds of a country being torn apart.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Eric_W on May 09, 2016

Born of a prestigious English military family, Loyd was enamored of war until he enlisted in the Bosnia conflict. Fresh with a degree in photojournalism and no prospect of a job, Loyd decided to go to Bosnia, where the war had been going on for about a year in 1993. Freshly arrived in Sarajevo, he w......more

Goodreads review by Clouds on September 23, 2013

Following the resounding success of my Locus Quest, I faced a dilemma: which reading list to follow it up with? Variety is the spice of life, so I’ve decided to diversify and pursue six different lists simultaneously. This book falls into my GIFTS AND GUILTY list. Regardless of how many books are......more

Goodreads review by Clif on March 13, 2022

Author Anthony Loyd took some courses in journalism in London, found a person to teach him Serbo-Croat and went off to chronicle the war in Bosnia from start to finish with a side trip to witness the first Russian attack on Grozny, Chechnya. His relentless pursuit of combat is broken with occasional......more

Goodreads review by Erik on December 04, 2010

Usually I expect to be choked up while reading war memoirs. That didn't happen often with Anthony Loyd's My War Gone By, the most gruesome account I have ever read of warfare, despite my prejudice, shared with the author, for the Bosnian side of the conflicts between the former republics of Yugoslav......more

Goodreads review by Jamie on April 19, 2022

It is hard to believe, but the Balkans were once home to one of the most advanced cultures in Europe, and had the Ottomans not invaded and conquered the area, the Renaissance might have started there a century earlier that it did in Italy. After the conquest the factions, divided by religion, tribe,......more