"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.
| ISBN: | 9780679735250 |
| Publication date: | 6th August 1991 |
| Author: | Michael Herr |
| Publisher: | Vintage Books an imprint of Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Pagination: | 260 pages |
| Series: | Vintage International |
| Genres: |
Military history: post-WW2 conflicts True war and combat stories Biography: historical, political and military Memoirs |
"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.
Dispatches features in the following genres: Military history: post-WW2 conflicts, True war and combat stories, Biography: historical, political and military, Memoirs
Dispatches is available in Paperback, Ebook
Dispatches was written by Michael Herr and published by Vintage Books an imprint of Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Dispatches has 260 pages
Yes it is part of Vintage International series