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.
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..
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. soldiers shining searchlights on fleeing refugees--who are promptly gunned down by snipers waiting in the darkness.
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He conveys the desperation that makes a Muslim beg the United States to bomb his own city in order to end the misery.
Maass examines how an ordinary Serb could wake up one morning and shoot his neighbor, once a friend--then rape that neighbor\'s wife.
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
