Dispatches (Everyman's Library Contemporary Classics Series)

Type

Book

Authors

Michael Herr

ISBN 10

0307270807

ISBN 13

9780307270801

Tags

Vietnam War, Memoirs

Description

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.(Book Jacket Status: Jacketed) - from Amzon

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