Dispatches
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4.7 • 20 Ratings
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- $8.99
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- $8.99
Publisher Description
We took space back quickly, expensively, with total panic and close to maximum brutality. Our machine was devastating. And versatile. It could do everything but stop.
Michael Herr went to Vietnam as a war correspondent for Esquire. He returned to tell the real story in all its hallucinatory madness and brutality, cutting to the quick of the conflict and its seductive, devastating impact on a generation of young men. His unflinching account is haunting in its violence, but even more so in its honesty.
First published in 1977, Dispatches was a revolutionary piece of new journalism that evoked the experiences of soldiers in Vietnam and has forever shaped our understanding of the conflict. It is now a seminal classic of war reportage.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
American correspondent Herr's documentary recalls the heavy combat he witnessed in Vietnam as well as the obscene speech, private fears and nightmares of the soldiers. ``Herr captures the almost hallucinatory madness of the war,'' said PW. ``This is a compelling, truth-telling book with a visceral impact, its images stuck in the mind like shards from a pineapple bomb.''
Customer Reviews
We Gotta Get Out Of This Place
This book is pure insanity condensed into a non-fiction first hand account of one of the most insane experiences put to paper.
The frantic writing style paired with the near unbelievable stories certainly inspired my own connections to Full Metal Jacket. The recounting of some grim segments now canonised in cinema certainly bring the stories to a visceral perspective.
The pervasive thought processes and a rebellious free-hand dictate a spiralling war that treads deeper and deeper down until you yourself are drowning in the words.
An utterly fantastic read and worthy of it’s praise as a modern classic.