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Love Thy Neighbor: A Story of War by Peter Maass

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Author: Peter MaassPublisher: Alfred a Knopf Inc
ISBN-10: 0679444335Category: History
ISBN-13: 9780679444336 --
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Publication Year: 1996Condition: Good
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Peter Maass reports from the land that was Yugoslavia. His vivid descriptions of a place destroyed by war are highlighted by encounters with people on all sides who have been transformed into combatants. Maass grapples not just with the reality of Bosnia but with the question of why people make wars.

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Length:305 pages
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Weight:23.2 oz.

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From the center of the nightmare in Bosnia, a war correspondent's flaming montage of images - eerie, grotesque, ironic, angry, absurd. A Serb and a Muslim, friends before the war, exchanging gossip via shortwave radio only hours before they will try to kill each other. A Sarajevo couple passionately refusing to go anywhere together for fear a mortar shell might orphan their children. A battlefield doctor performing miracles of surgery without anesthetics. In episode after episode, Peter Maass takes us with him into the minefields of modern war: a whole country is the battleground, every living being in it a combatent. His fierce, vivid, truth-telling and deeply personal book makes us see the devil under the skin - and the thinness of the line between civilization and chaos.
What Michael Herrs Dispatches was to the Vietnam War, Love Thy Neighbor is to the Bosnian War--a brilliantly observed and deeply felt evocation of war by a writer who witnessed it. The work immediately calls to mind Hellers Catch-22 for its grasp of the absurdity of war, and, for its accurate presentation of the events, Neil Sheehan's A Bright, Shining Lie.

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"He has a knack for bringing close the horrors that readers would prefer to keep at arm's length. His account of his visits to the Trnopolje and Omarska concentration camps, where thousands of Muslims were detained and tortured by Serbian guards, and where hundreds were being murdered, is so harrowing partly because he concentrates on the moral quandary in which his own presence puts him."
New York Times Book Review - Brian Hall (03/10/1996)

"He has written a sardonic, passionate, searching, often surreal book that...finds its bitter genius in the chasm between truth and official truth and the deadly implications of this gap....The strength of the book is its quiet, perfectly tuned epiphanies about the human urge for violence and the forces that allow it to be unleashed."
Washington Post Book World - Tina Rosenberg (03/10/1996)

"A gripping work from the very first page, by a writer whose bravery, honesty, and vivid proficiency add honor to his profession. There are events in this book the reader will find hard to forget. I doubt the author, having been witness, will ever forget them."
Book jacket - Joseph Heller 

"Extraordinary...Pass it on, and keep it for your children until they're old enough to read it themselves. Far too many people it describes died. Don't let that happen to their story."
Mail on Sunday (London) - Tim Sebastian 

"Like Michael Herr's 'Dispatches', this is a literary work about war that enlightens us, horrifies us, and often forces us to face parts of ourselves that are unflatteringly familiar. A remarkable, brilliant book."
Book jacket - Gay Talese 

"Brilliantly written with contained emotion, Peter Maass's shattering book on the tragedy in the former Yugoslavia is more than a reportage; it is a powerful plea for sanity, decency, and compassion on behalf of forgotten victims."
Book jacket - Elie Wiesel 


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Love Thy Neighbor: A Story of War

Peter Maass

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Binding: Hardcover
Book Condition: Good
Jacket Condition: Good
ISBN: 0679444335
Publication Date: 1996-02-27
Publisher: Knopf
Pages: 305
Height: 0.9000 inches
Width: 6.5000 inches
Weight: 1.4500 pounds

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