My War Gone By, I Miss It So - Anthony Loyd
Category: History
Narrator: Steven Crossley
Tags: History, Military, Autobiography & Biographies, Adults
Publisher: Recorded Books, Inc. Release date: September 17, 2015 Duration: 11:48:52, A beautiful and disturbing account of the Bosnian conflict by a war correspondent grappling with addiction and a family legacy of military heroism (The Wall Street Journal)., Publishers Weekly. Starred review from January 3, 2000 It was not necessarily that I had `found myself during the war, but the conflict had certainly put a kind of buffer zone between the fault lines in my head. Writing with a combat veterans dark knowledge and a seasoned war correspondents edgy, hesitant desire to cling to some sort of confidence in humanity, Loyd delivers a searing firsthand account of the war in Bosnia that successfully blends autobiographical confession and war reportage., Loyd, a veteran of the Persian Gulf War (where he was a platoon commander), was deep into suicidal depression and heavy drinking when, at 26, he left London for war-torn Bosnia in 1993 (he got assignments for British newspapers and is now a
