A journalist’s experience of genocide, heroin addiction and frontline reporting is to come to the big screen with the Dunkirk star Tom Hardy set to play a Times war correspondent. Anthony Loyd, a former soldier, turned up in the carnage of the Bosnian war of 1993 to find work as a journalist while battling his own demons, including heroin addiction. My War Gone By, I Miss It So is Anthony Loyd’s account of covering the Bosnian war DoubledayLoyd, who has since reported for The Times on conflicts in Kosovo, Chechnya, Afghanistan, Sierra Leone, Iraq and Syria, documented his experiences in My War Gone By, I Miss it So, a 1999 memoir due to be turned into a film. The book charts Loyd’s battle with drugs and his struggle to deal with the barbarity he witnessed in describing the chaos of war in…

Source: The Times July 26, 2017 23:03 UTC