My War Gone By, I Miss It So

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These are the events which shaped the man who became a great journalist, The Times’ lead war reporter and winner of the Amnesty International Award.

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If you stuck around long enough, the dead and wounded piled up so quickly they squeezed one another off the narrow platforms of your memory. It was not necessarily that I had `found myself' during the war, but the conflict had certainly put a kind of buffer zone between the fault lines in my head. One chapter is also dedicated to his experience in Chechnya, to where he flew during a truce - before the 1995 Dayton Peace Agreement put an end to the Balkan bloodbath. I try to fight superstition with the power of reason, but with the drink and smoke and significance of that last night I could not help but feel that she was some ghostly omen of good fortune. No-one said anything for a second as we all looked at the far wall and its narrow door while the fire still sung around us.Within weeks of the outbreak of war, while the lines of confrontation were still fluid, thousands of people had fled the city, to be replaced by refugees from rural areas who brought a new brand of culture to the capital and with it new tensions. She had long straight hair that fell halfway down her back, its blackness matched only by the dark of her eyes, and was smoking a cigarette, hauling deeply on it as if it was the last she had.

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Loyd’s fragmentary reports morph into first-rate war correspondence from Bosnia that places him into the great tradition of Hemingway, Philip Caputo, and Michael Herr. The warmth of the small stove with its sometimes feckless flame became the focus of our conversations with the coming of darkness each night.I had worn it because I was aware that it was easy to die in those streets—especially as a stranger new to the rules of the fighting—and realized that life was not something to be treated flippantly there.