Dispatches Dispatches

Dispatches

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Publisher Description

"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.

GENRE
History
RELEASED
1977
October 12
LANGUAGE
EN
English
LENGTH
272
Pages
PUBLISHER
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
SELLER
Penguin Random House LLC
SIZE
6.7
MB

Customer Reviews

SpiffyWendigo ,

Phenomenal book

Fantastic book, a must-read if you have any interest in the Vietnam War. It’s right up there with Hell In A Small Place.
This is money well spent.

Fleming Bourgeois ,

Great Book but Very Difficult to Understand

This book is packed with great metaphors and deeper meanings behind the writing style, but it is so hard to follow along and understand. It is so difficult to read that I could not tell you what happened after rereading each paragraph countless times. This is all intentional but I really do not enjoy it in a book.

riffian666 ,

Dispatches

Best book on Vietnam, period. Buy this, you will not be disappointed!!!

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