Dispatches

b>With an introduction by Kevin Powers./b>b>A groundbreaking piece of journalism which inspired Stanley Kubrick's classic Vietnam War film Full Metal Jacket./b>We took space back quickly, expensively, with total panic and close to maximum brutality. Our machine was devastating. And versatile. It could do everything but stop.Michael Herr went to Vietnam as a war correspondent for Esquire. He returned to tell the real story in all its hallucinatory madness and brutality, cutting to the quick of the conflict and its seductive, devastating impact on a generation of young men. His unflinching account is haunting in its violence, but even more so in its honesty. First published in 1977, Dispatches was a revolutionary piece of new journalism that evoked the experiences of soldiers in Vietnam and has forever shaped our understanding of the conflict. It is now a seminal classic of war reportage.

About the author

Michael Herr was born in 1940, Syracuse, New York. He was a writer and former war correspondent best known as the author of Dispatches (1977), a memoir of his time as a correspondent for Esquire magazine (1967-1969) during the Vietnam War. He died in 2016, aged seventy-six.

Summary

A seminal classic of war reportage.

Report

The best book I have ever read on men and war in our time. John Le Carré

Product details

• Authors: Michael Herr
• Assisted by: Kevin Powers (Introduction)
• Publisher: Picador Uk
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 01.01.2015
• EAN: 9781447275060
• ISBN: 978-1-4472-7506-0
• No. of pages: 272
• Dimensions: 132 mm x 198 mm x 20 mm
• Series: Picador Classic; Picador Classics; Picador Classic; Picador Classics
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; Humanities, art, music > History > Contemporary history (1945 to 1989); Non-fiction book > History > 20th century (up to 1945); Postwar 20th century history, from c 1945 to c 2000, Journalism, Reportage & collected journalism, Asian History, History of the Americas, War & defence operations, Modern / 20th Century, Military / United States