‘Not since Michael Herr wrote Dispatches has any journalist written so persuasively about violence and its seductions.’ Peter Beaumont, Observer

Ex-infantry officer Anthony Loyd arrived in Bosnia hoping to become a war correspondent. He left behind a damaged, distinguished military family and swapped one kind of addiction for another; drink and drugs for the adrenaline of combat.

In the Balkans he became truly embedded – both appalled by and involved in – the war’s cruel chaos. In the midst of the daily life-and-death struggle among the Serbs, Croatians and Bosnian Muslims, he was inspired by the extraordinary human fortitude he discovered. But when home, empty and craving adrenaline, he would face his own frailties until he could bear it no longer.

My War Gone By, I Miss It So is a uniquely powerful piece of writing, unparalleled in the genre. A compassionate, visceral record of conflict; a brutally honest account of war’s exhilarations and more personal battlegrounds.