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Dispatches

By Michael Herr

By Michael Herr

By Michael Herr
Introduction by Robert Stone

By Michael Herr
Introduction by Robert Stone

By Michael Herr

By Michael Herr

By Michael Herr

By Michael Herr

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Part of Vintage International

Part of Everyman's Library Contemporary Classics Series

Part of Vintage International

Paperback $16.95

Aug 06, 1991 | ISBN 9780679735250

Hardcover $25.00

Feb 17, 2009 | ISBN 9780307270801

Ebook $13.99

Nov 30, 2011 | ISBN 9780307814166

Audiobook Download $20.00

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    About Dispatches

    “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 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 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.

    About Dispatches

    Written on the front lines in Vietnam, Dispatches became an immediate classic of war reportage when it was published in 1977.

    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 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.

    About Dispatches

    “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 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 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.

    About Dispatches

    “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 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 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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    About Michael Herr

    Michael Herr was a novelist and war correspondent. Born in Lexington, Kentucky in 1940, he began reporting from Vietnam for Esquire in the 1960s, during the height of the war. He later chronicled those experiences in his memoir, Dispatches. He is the author of… More about Michael Herr

    About Michael Herr

    Michael Herr was a novelist and war correspondent. Born in Lexington, Kentucky in 1940, he began reporting from Vietnam for Esquire in the 1960s, during the height of the war. He later chronicled those experiences in his memoir, Dispatches. He is the author of… More about Michael Herr

    About Michael Herr

    Michael Herr was a novelist and war correspondent. Born in Lexington, Kentucky in 1940, he began reporting from Vietnam for Esquire in the 1960s, during the height of the war. He later chronicled those experiences in his memoir, Dispatches. He is the author of… More about Michael Herr

    About Michael Herr

    Michael Herr was a novelist and war correspondent. Born in Lexington, Kentucky in 1940, he began reporting from Vietnam for Esquire in the 1960s, during the height of the war. He later chronicled those experiences in his memoir, Dispatches. He is the author of… More about Michael Herr

    Product Details

    Category: 1950 – Present Military History | Biography & Memoir

    Paperback | $16.95
    Published by Vintage
    Aug 06, 1991 | 272 Pages | 5-3/16 x 8 | ISBN 9780679735250

    Category: 1950 – Present Military History | Nonfiction Classics | Biography & Memoir

    Hardcover | $25.00
    Published by Everyman’s Library
    Feb 17, 2009 | 288 Pages | 4-7/8 x 8-1/8 | ISBN 9780307270801

    Category: 1950 – Present Military History | Biography & Memoir

    Ebook | $13.99
    Published by Vintage
    Nov 30, 2011 | 272 Pages | ISBN 9780307814166

    Category: 1950 – Present Military History | Biography & Memoir | Audiobooks

    Audiobook Download | $20.00
    Published by Random House Audio
    Oct 05, 2021 | 600 Minutes | ISBN 9780593555262

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    Praise

    “The best book I have ever read on men and war in our time.”

    —John le Carré

    “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

    ” . . . Dispatches puts the rest of us in the shade.”
    —Hunter S. Thompson

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