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Michael Herr, who wrote about the Vietnam War for Esquire magazine, gathered his years of notes from his front-line reporting and turned them into what many people consider the best account of the war to date, when published in 1977. He captured the feel of the war and how it differed from any theater of combat ever fought, as well as the flavor of the time and the essence of the people who were there. Since Dispatches was published, other excellent books have appeared on the war--may we suggest The Things They Carried, The Sorrow of War, We Were Soldiers Once ... and Young--but Herr's book was the first to hit the target head-on and remains a classic.
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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."
Copyright 1991 Reed Business Information, Inc.
Copyright 1991 Reed Business Information, Inc.
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There was a map of Vietnam on the wall of my apartment in Saigon and some nights, coming back late to the city, I'd lie out on my bed and look at it, too tired to do anything more than just get my boots off. Read the first page
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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars
Simply the best book about Vietman ever written,
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This review is from: Dispatches (Paperback)
I've read this book about a hundred times, and I suspect I'll continue to read it forever. The prose, the descriptions of times and places, and comrades are brilliant. Many times I've showed my wife a passage that Herr has written as an example of what great writing should read like. I've tried to capture in my readings on Vietnam what the experience must have been like, and Herr is the only author that has helped me put a framework around that. I've recommended this book well over 100 times over these past years to anyone looking for an explanation of what Vietnam was, including the lunacy and the real stories underneath the "official command" stories, This is a must read (and own).
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
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the best book, ever.,
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I used to tell people that this was the best book I've ever read. Period. And I think it still is.
4 of 6 people found the following review helpful
1.0 out of 5 stars
Jason Blair Herr in Nam,
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This review is from: Dispatches (Paperback)
I'm a Nam vet who read this book carefully just after publication. I made a list of about ten downright silly errors appearing in the book. Although I wasn't a Marine (Herr's on the predominantly jarhead scene), I was with the 1st Cav, the only US outfit that seemed to really impress Herr. In any case, I was looking at an old Phil Caputo interview and Caputo says Herr told him he made up a lot of Dispatches. That's something I can believe. If you smoke less weed and have lots of actual combat experiences, you have a better quality of high punctilio recollections. Lots of wannabees and political-types don't get that. To actually have the background and boldness to question the veracity of a work like this is incomprehensible. Well, I get to do that. There is a bunch of fake malarkey in this book and honest people should not hold it in high esteem.
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