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Love Thy Neighbor

A Story of War

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Love Thy Neighbor

By: Peter Maass
Narrated by: George Guidall
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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 audiobook 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-20th-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 audiobook that will move and instruct us for years to come.

©1996 Peter Maass (P)2018 Tantor Europe History & Theory International Relations Military Political Science Politics & Government War Middle Ages Refugee Scary Inspiring Imperialism Middle East Latin America Bosnian War
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Really good book, but he didn’t say much about Croatia and Kosovo almost nothing. I don’t why.

Is not completely story.

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This work will remind us of a world we once lived in and hopefully warn us of dangers on the horizon. I have my own memories of this war and this book has stirred them to the surface again. Now I observe past events from the vantage point of the present and consider the present with a renewed lens of the past. Well done!!!

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Something lead me to this book. A speaker from BiH shared his story of surviving the war at an International Holocaust Remembrance event in January. I was embarrassed, as a privileged US citizen, that I did not know more. I listened to this book while driving to work (2hours each day) and was horrified by what happened. Hell on earth. Why do humans do this?

I needed to learn more so went to Bosnia and Herzegovina. I thought it would be a "one and done" trip yet it was much more. I will return again in December. This book by far is one of the best if not the best to tell the story of the worst of humanity, the heroes of humanity, the resilient spirit of Bosniaks. Soldiers of the war recommend it, and were surprised I "read" it! I am going to spread the word on what happened through some groups I am in who address peace and conflict, and to think it all started with this book.

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Excellent author giving a realistic view of life conflicts 30 years ago and potential evil for society today.

Captive Reading & Learning

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This book is one of the most compelling books I have ever read. Cannot recommend enough.

Phenomenal

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