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Original Title:	Dispatches
ISBN:	0679735259 (ISBN13: 9780679735250)
Edition Language:	English
Literary Awards:	National Book Critics Circle Award Nominee for General Nonfiction (1977), Premio Internacional de la Prensa (1978)

Dispatches

Michael Herr

Paperback | Pages: 260 pages

Rating: 4.23 | 15487 Users | 1007 Reviews

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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.

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Title	:	Dispatches
Author	:	Michael Herr
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	Special Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 260 pages
Published	:	August 6th 1991 by Vintage (first published 1977)
Categories	:	Nonfiction. History. War. Writing. Journalism

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Ratings: 4.23 From 15487 Users | 1007 Reviews

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War is Forever Evil is not an absence of the good as proposed by theologians. It is a positive force precisely proportionate to the coercive technological power employed. Power kills people; people dont kill people; technology does. War is unlimited power; or power limited only by the technology available but certainly not by morality, that is to say, people. Herr saw this at close quarters: Our machine was devastating. And versatile. It could do everything but stop. No one who had power

For many years, the book most likely to come to mind when Vietnam was mentioned. One of those 'I appreciate having read this, but once was enough.' Five star strength and associations.Many reviews to like, too.

Dude can write!!! The first full chapter, Breathing In, is a breathless masterpiece putting you right in the swirling mess of it, reaching out to all aspects of the war and pulling them in as it sucks you in with it. But this is not all. In Khe Sanh Herr changes pace for a slower, more sparsely populated narrative, which despite the lower octave does not let up in intensity or observation, and finally breaks out of the surrounded marine base and shifts to a series of grimly funny scenes with the

What kind of mad man voluntarily goes in theater during a vicious war? Dumbfounded soldiers and marines often asked this of Michael Herr. As a war correspondent for Esquire, he went not just to the periphery, but into the viscera of 1968 Vietnam. These are war stories in the raw; from Herr himself and from the very servicemen who lived the tales, many of whom had trouble distinguishing between their love of service and contempt for the Vietnam War.Note: Herr also assisted with two of the most

In 1969 I was a kid oblivious to all the clues of the Vietnam War around me ... the Sunday picnic trips to Fort Knox where my uncle was training and from where he'd eventually be sent to serve in Southeast Asia, driving trucks in an out of the hot zones, constantly sniped at, but surviving to return a somewhat angry man. I remember trips to the George Patton Museum there, where large paintings of Air Cav choppers graced the upper walls dramatically with slogans like "winning the war with air

"Each day to facilitate the process by which the United States washes her hands of Vietnam someone has to give up his life so that the United States doesn't have to admit something that the entire world already knows, so that we can't say that we have made a mistake. Someone has to die so that President Nixon won't be, and these are his words, "the first President to lose a war."We are asking Americans to think about that because how do you ask a man to be the last man to die in Vietnam? How do