| Love Thy Neighbor: A Story of War Contributor(s): Maass, Peter (Author) |
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ISBN: 0679763899 ISBN-13: 9780679763895 Publisher: Vintage OUR PRICE: $18.00 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: March 1997 Annotation: Winner of the Los Angeles Times Book Prize Peter 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. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - History | Eastern Europe - General - History | Military - General - Political Science | International Relations - General |
| Dewey: 949.702 |
| LCCN: 95039250 |
| Physical Information: 0.73" H x 5.15" W x 7.94" (0.57 lbs) 320 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - Eastern Europe |
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| Publisher Description: Winner of the Los Angeles Times Book Prize Peter 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. |
