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    Love Thy Neighbor: A Story of War
    Love Thy Neighbor: A Story of War
    Love Thy Neighbor: A Story of War
    Audiobook12 hours

    Love Thy Neighbor: A Story of War

    Written by Peter Maass

    Narrated by George Guidall

    4.5/5

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    About this audiobook

    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-twentieth-century hell that is also a scathing inquiry into the worst extremes of human nature. Like Michael Herr's Dispatches, it is an utterly gripping book that will move and instruct us for years to come.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherTantor Media, Inc
    Release dateMay 29, 2018
    ISBN9781977383563
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    • 5/5
      April 1st, 1992. My father was five months and twenty days away from dying. On that day, Serbians commenced their brutal attack on Bosnia. I think I might have done damage to my psyche to read about Bosnia and Guernica in the same month...To wipe out an entire community or ethnicity for absolutely no reason other than pure dominance is unfathomable.Line that gave me pause, "There was even a slip of paper from the library saying they didn't posses any overdue books" (p 86). Imagine giving up everything you own, including items you don't, like books borrowed from the library. The business of the bureau for ethnic cleansing demanded Bosnians claim they handed over all worldly possessions to a Serbian. This act does not encompass the horrific violence, but rather the senseless humility.About the violence. Most of the time I found myself twisting and twitching in my chair, wanting to turn away from the sentences of torture Maas wrote. I am one of those fat and happy and white privileged people who blissfully and ignorantly cite misunderstanding when it comes to the war in Bosnia. I was oblivious to the death and destruction with the exception of what the U.S. media decided or cared to reveal to me. What baffles me the most is that, like the Hutu and Tutsi, Serbs and Bosnians at one time got along like neighbors and family. Another war similarity from forty years earlier, like Franco denying the bombing of Guernica, Serbia denied the bombing of Bosnia was their responsibility. Death and destruction is not a macabre mirage and yet they do refuse see or own it. The practice of modern warfare with age-old atrocities was hard to read. Maas takes his time to carefully humanize the narrative by inserting personal anecdotes from his own life.

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    • 4/5
      What a gripping book. I read it all the way through once, and I've tried to pick it up and re-read it a time or two, but I just can't do it. The scenes that he describes are horrible enough; the actual people living through them are just tragic.

      Maass describes the city of Sarajevo as it was, goes through the smell of a human who has made it through to a gymnasium serving as a refugee camp in the early days of the bombing, and the finally into the details of what happened in Sarajevo.

      Especially sad to read are the inhabitants' lives before this war started. There was no warning; none. One home had the approval document for a build-out on his home that was due to begin in a few days, as an example. The war-lords of the Serbs are quite well documented, and this was the book that finally made me see how impossible the situation was for the Bosnian Muslims: the Serbs (and Croats) were convincing the rest of the world that the Muslims were evil, the Muslims were armed, and no one else should get involved.

      With all of the recent pardons from the World Court of the Serbs who helped perpetrate this genocide, everyone on that Court in Brussels should be forced to read this book. There is just no getting it out of your mind.
    • 5/5
      Amazing book which does not overdose on the gory but gives a sense of what it might be like to live day after day for two or three years in a horrific war. His description of life in Banja Luka for Muslims is harrowing, his visits to the cleaned up concentration camps, and his description of the young man shot on Sniper Alley in Sarajevo. Unforgettable. He even met Milosevic one on one. He does not dismiss the Serbs as primitives, or single out Rwandans, or isolate anybody, rather, the capacity to evil is in all of us. God help us! Many fun/ironic/sardonic observations.
    • 5/5
      This book is a disturbing yet brutally honest account of the conflict in Yugoslavia. Maas' writing is easy-to-read, and helps to put the war in context for even the most uninformed readers.
    • 4/5
      Devastating book. Well written and detailed. But it will leave you angry and saddened by the level of inhumanity descibed. Must read though.
    • 5/5
      I'd already been reading about genocide when I ran across an essay by Maas in The New Killing Fields, and I was so shaken by some of the things he wrote that I immediately sought out and read this one. It ranks among the most moving accounts of current issues, right up there with We Wish To Inform You That Tomorrow We Will Be Killed With Our Families.