Best nonfiction book on foreign affair
Award Year: 1996
Award Name: The Cornelius Ryan Award 1996
Recipient: Peter Maass
Affiliation: Alfred A. Knopf
Honored Work: “Love Thy Neighbor: A Story of War”
Maass, whose reporting for this book first | appeared in The Washington Post, describes the violence in Bosnia and his attempts to come to terms with it. He documents what seemed at first fantastic stories of torture and mass murder, and discusses his own fears — physical and moral—as he reports to an outside world that seems not to care. A powerful book about a horrifying conflict.
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