Love Thy Neighbor: A Story of War

Name: Love Thy Neighbor: A Story of War
Author: Peter Maass
ISBN: 9780679763895

Peter Maass

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Peter Maass

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#1007 of 3,809 books · #384 in History

Won the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Current Interest (1996).

Love Thy Neighbor won 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.

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