Dispatches

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“The most efficient book to have been written about the Vietnam War” (The New York Times Book Review); an instant classic straight from the front lines.

From its terrifying opening pages to its final eloquent words, Dispatches makes us see, in unforgettable and unflinching detail, the chaos and fervor of the war and the surreal insanity of life in that singular combat zone. Michael Herr’s unsparing, unorthodox retellings of the daily events in Vietnam take on the force of poetry, rendering clarity from one of the crucial incomprehensible and nightmarish events of our time.

Dispatches is a few of the most blistering and compassionate accounts of war in our literature.
Michael Herr, who wrote about the Vietnam War for Esquire magazine, gathered his years of notes from his front-line reporting and turned them into what many of us imagine The most efficient account of the war so far, when published in 1977. He captured the feel of the war and how it differed from any theater of combat ever fought, in addition to the flavor of the time and the essence of the people who were there. Since Dispatches used to be published, other excellent books have gave the impression on the war–may we suggest The Things They Carried, The Sorrow of War, We Were Soldiers Once … and Young–but Herr’s book used to be the first to hit the target head-on and remains a classic.

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