Loyd manages to get on the inside and look out, and so provides a perspective on hatred, cruelty and human depravity that is sobering and terrifying. The horror of this beautifully written book (hard to describe such a book thusly given the content) is that Loyd found the war somehow appealing, a high close to that of his former heroin addiction. The wounded correspondent asked Loyd to fill in until the paper could send a replacement, Loyd agreed and so started his first job as a journalist. Quel testo ebbe profonde ripercussioni su di me, e mi mostrò l’esistenza di una tribù per la quale disciplina e autorità erano concetti astratti: i corrispondenti di guerra.

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But if you stuck around long enough at the time, the dead and wounded piled up so quickly they squeezed one another off the narrow platforms of your memory.You could take sides in Bosnia easily enough if you wished, but it never allowed you complete peace of mind. They just laughed, though the tinge of relief in it spoiled their display of bravado, offered me a cigarette and escorted me upstairs to an office. Ma trovo che la vera pornografia sia tradurre il titolo originale ‘My War Gone, I Miss It So’ in Apocalisse criminale. What he's actually looking for is the thrill only a war could give him, the intensity he would never experience in normal circumstances. I knew if I went I would not have much money with me, certainly not enough to hire an interpreter, so I rang up the Serb restaurant in Notting Hill and asked if there was anyone there who could teach me Serbo-Croatian.

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Momcilo was in favour of foreign intervention and massive air strikes upon the Serb forces around the city. It would not need the skill of a sniper to kill us, anyone who could pull a trigger could have managed it. There is no rest in this book; personal encounters, good, bad and often impossible to predict come on every page.The stark, often lyrical quality of his prose accentuates the surreal atmosphere of wartime in Bosnia. After finding Begum, Loyd taped an interview with her where she stated she had no regrets about moving to ISIL-Controlled territory. So Loyd became a war photographer supporting himself by selling photos for 50 Deutsche Marks per photograph.

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Yet it was obvious even in those first few minutes of meeting that his wife, Yelena, was not so easily able to resist the pressures of the conflict. There were numerous groups of men surrounded by cadres of armed bodyguards who created their own little fiefdoms, and allegiances shifted more frequently than a river’s bottom.People who have lived together in harmony for generations suddenly found themselves on opposite sides of conflict they could barely understand.