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ISBN-10: 0679735259
ISBN-13: 9780679735250
Publisher: Vintage
Publish Date: 08/06/1991
Dimensions: 8.15" L, 5.20" W, 0.73" H

Dispatches

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Overview

“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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Reviews

"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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Details

ISBN-10: 0679735259
ISBN-13: 9780679735250
Publisher: Vintage
Publish Date: 08/06/1991
Dimensions: 8.15" L, 5.20" W, 0.73" H
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