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. 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. This war was even more nefarious than the Holocaust in nature and somewhat more torturous than many people have heard of.

All that want a background and excellent coverage of the story of the Balkan War, which was not covered enough in the news and totally forgotten as to the torture that these people went through.

How Maass wrote this book in a documentary style.

Read more about the Bosnian war and its genocide as well as the genocide of a culture upon the people of these countries.

Incredibly shocked and saddened.

Peter Maass

This war reporter was the best there was in writing a about the scathing war in the Balkans.

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