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Me Against My Brother: At War in Somalia, Sudan, and Rwanda. By Scott Peterson
August 27, 2000
At War in Somalia, Sudan, and Rwanda
By Scott Peterson
Routledge.
357 pp. $26
Reviewed by Peter Maass
Africa is an expression of vastness. It is a matter not just of size but of drama and ...
George
For more than a decade, photographer James Nachtwey has chronicled the war zones of the world–Rwanda, Bosnia and Chechnya among them. Now, a new book, Inferno, brings us his vision of hell on earth.
December 1999
When you drove into wartime Sarajevo along Sniper Alley, ...
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In the Cellar. By Jan Philipp Reemtsma
February 21, 1999
By Jan Philipp Reemtsma
Knopf. 240 pp. $24
Reviewed by Peter Maass
What can be said about a book in which the author vows to avoid a vivid narrative style and vivid metaphors? In which, writing of a traumatic experience he endured, ...
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Dragonfly: Nasa and the Crisis Aboard Mir. By Bryan Burrough
December 10, 1998
By Bryan Burrough
HarperCollins. 528 pp. $26.95
Reviewed by Peter Maass
Space flight is in vogue again. The journey of John Glenn has refocused attention on the fascinating spectacle of humans soaring into ...
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Montenegro. By Starling Lawrence
August 20, 1997
By Starling Lawrence
Farrar Straus Giroux. 306 pp. $23
Reviewed by Peter Maass
There is a passage in Rebecca West’s classic book about the Balkans, “Black Lamb and Grey Falcon,” in which she wrote of being waked in a ...
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Season of Blood: A Rwandan Journey. By Fergal Keane
August 25, 1996
By Fergal Keane
Viking. 198 pp. $21.95
Reviewed by Peter Maass
HOW DO you explain what war is like? How do you explain the mad violence of drunken soldiers or the spiritual ruins that survivors have been turned into? ...
