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"After serving in the British Army in the Gulf and Northern Ireland, Loyd mustered out, got a post-graduate degree in as a photojournalist, and headed for Bosnia. Though he spent several harrowing weeks in Chechnya in 1995, most of the book details his experiences covering the war (partly free lance, eventually on staff for British papers) in the former Yugoslavia from 1993 to 1995, having lots of near misses with munitions and thugs, and witnessing unimaginable atrocities -- from a grieving widow waving a severed leg, and prisoners forced to walk back to their own lines with mines wired all over them, to a five-year-old girl weeping tears of blood ("massive blast concussion I guess"). The book also describes Loyd's periodic trips home to England where he had to deal with a rotten relationship with his father, and an on-again-off-again heroin addiction that filled the empty space left by glorious, terrible war. _My War Gone By, I Miss It So_ is an arrested portrait of war, the victims and killers it creates, and war junkies, written in fine and occasionally exquisite prose."
David Loftus, Resident Scholar
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Ratings are on a 1-10 scale (Low to High)
Plot
Family, hate
Yes
Struggle with:
- Father
The difficult family member
- is chronically crotchety
War/Cloak & Dagger story?
- impact on civilian
War/Spying
Yes
Period of greatest activity?
- 1950+
Subject of Biography
Gender
- Male
Profession/status:
- journalist
Age:
- 20's-30's
Is this an ordinary person caught up in events?
Yes
Ethnicity
- White
Nationality
- British
How sensitive is this person?
- sensitive to others' feelings
Sense of humor
- Cynical sense of humor
Intelligence
- Average intelligence
Physique
- average physique
Setting
How much descriptions of surroundings?
- 6 ()
Europe
Yes
European country:
- England/UK
- Eastern Europe
Mountains/Cliffs
Yes
Forest?
Yes
Misc setting
- fort/military installation
Century:
- 1980's-Present
Style
Person
- mostly 1st
Accounts of torture and death?
- explicit references to deaths
Book makes you feel?
- depressed
Sex in book?
Yes
What kind of sex:
- vague references
Commentary on society?
Yes
Commentary on
- selfishness
- war
- wicked men
- dying
Writer's slant towards subject:
- favorable
Story of entire life, or part?
- story of set of events during life
Autobiography?
Yes
How much dialogue in bio?
- little dialog
How much is philosophy rather than life story?
- 0-25% of book
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