Love Thy Neighbor, Peter Maass
Love Thy Neighbor, Peter Maass
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Love Thy Neighbor
A Story of War

Author: Peter Maass

Narrator: George Guidall

Unabridged: 12 hr 32 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 05/29/2018

Synopsis

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. 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-twentieth-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 book that will move and instruct us for years to come.

About Peter Maass

Peter Maass is a senior editor at The Intercept. He has written about war, media, and national security for the New York Times Magazine, the New Yorker, and the Washington Post. He is the author of Love Thy Neighbor: A Story of War, an award-winning memoir about the conflict in Bosnia, and he wrote Crude World: The Violent Twilight of Oil.

Peter was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship in 2012. He has taught writing at Princeton and Columbia universities, and had fellowships at the Shorenstein Center at Harvard and the American Academy in Berlin. He is on the advisory boards of the Solutions Journalism Network, and the Program for Narrative and Documentary Practice at Tufts University. A graduate of the University of California at Berkeley, he lives in New York City.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Andrew on February 20, 2013

I can genuinely only think of two books which have made me want to cry. The first was My War Gone By, I Miss it So, which is Anthony Loyd's brilliant story of covering the wars in Bosnia and Chechnya, The second is this book, another reporter's story of covering the Balkan conflict. Loyd's book focu......more

Goodreads review by Cheyenne on May 01, 2012

The war the world ignored and then forgot. Peter Maass was a war correspondent for the Washington Post and he covered the war in Bosnia in the 1990s. This isn't about military campaigns though, it's stories of war, about ordinary people caught up in something horrific. When Serbia invaded Bosnia, the......more

Goodreads review by Murtaza on November 10, 2018

An astonishing account of the war in Bosnia that is perhaps the best piece of conflict journalism or literature that I've ever read. Peter Maass spent several years covering that ugly war at a very intimate level and has produced a book that is a genuine classic. Even two decades later, with many ot......more

Goodreads review by Simon on June 08, 2009

While in 1992 I was taking my first trip to Europe, falling in love for the first time, getting my introduction to Pentecostalism and learning to live, people were being exterminated only several hundred miles away from me. While I was going into my fourth year of high school education in Bulgaria,......more

Goodreads review by Toni on March 24, 2021

If surrealism had not existed, Bosnia would have invented it. This book has been sitting on my shelf for a long time. No doubt, it was one of those books that I bought over 15 years ago when I was about to get on a plane and head to work at an international court that was set up to make belated and p......more

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