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Michael Herr
"The best 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 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 day-to-day events in Vietnam take on the force of poetry, rendering clarity from one of the most incomprehensible and nightmarish events of our time.
Dispatches is among the most blistering and compassionate accounts of war in our literature.
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Critic reviews
“The best book I have ever read on men and war in our time.” (John le Carré)
"Dispatches puts the rest of us in the shade." (Hunter S. Thompson)
“In the great line of Crane, Orwell, and Hemingway...Herr reaches an excruciating level of intensity.... He seems to have brought to this book the ear of a musician and the eye of a painter.... The premier war correspondence of Vietnam.” (The Washington Post)
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fantastic recollection
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Amazing!
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A remarkable performance of a remarkable book.
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Flowery Writing Explaining Horrors of the War
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Everything about this book kicks ass
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All of the reviews are correct.
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Believe me Vietnam was on our mind.
Sean Flinn, Tim Page, Dana Stone, it’s a wonderful and heart wrenching work.
Epic book on Vietnam
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Fascinating
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Written from the experiences of a journalist, this unvarnished version of what was wrong with the entire Vietnam "experience" will leave you stunned. From the mix messaging from the Generals and Colonels, to the culture and how the intersection of war, drugs and an era that had America's younger generation starting to question the intentions of our leaders, this book will leave you questioning our motives.
Dispatches gives you the experiences of a bunch of kids with so much life left in them, only to see that lives snuffed out or polluted by what they experienced over there. It's an eye-opening account from the front lines of this conflict.
Herr doesn't pull his punches and he's constantly balancing the distrust of the military brass with the uncomfortable nature of the young adult troops. 18-20 year old men have a version of what this war might be, only to have that version gutted and exposed as a horrific truth is exposed.
This book is short on the details of what got us into Vietnam. It's not written for that. It's written to give you a reporters version of his observations as he travels with the troops in this endless cycle of conflict and misguided instruction. He leaves a different man, just like I did regarding my insights into why we were there in the first place.
Well worth one's time.
You want an unvarnished view of Vietnam?
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Must read!
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