Love Thy Neighbor (Magill’s Literary Annual 1991-2005)
At a glance:
- Author: Peter Maass
- First Published: 1996
- Type of Work: Current affairs
- Genres: Nonfiction, Current affairs
- Subjects: Rape, Ethnic relations, War, Nationalism, Refugees, Eastern Europe or eastern Europeans, Yugoslavia or Yugoslavians, Genocide
From the beginning, it is clear that Love Thy Neighbor: A Story of War is more of an inquiry into why the Bosnian civil war occurred, and deep frustration over the failure of the great powers to intervene to halt it, than a history of the conflict. Yet his many stories of suffering in the most destructive European conflict since World War II make it valuable as an account of the human cost and meaning of the war, which are often superficially examined in other works. Maass, a correspondent for The Washington Post in Bosnia during the height of the siege of Sarajevo, felt...
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