Dispatches

''The best book I have ever read on men and war in our time'' John Le Carre 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. A groundbreaking piece of journalism which inspired Stanley Kubrick''s classic Vietnam War film Full Metal Jacket .

Product details

• Authors: Michael Herr, Herr Michael
• Publisher: Picador Uk
• Languages: English
• Age Recommendation: from age 18
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 08.08.2024
• EAN: 9781035038947
• ISBN: 978-1-0-3503894-7
• No. of pages: 272
• Dimensions: 130 mm x 196 mm x 19 mm
• Series: Picador Classic; Picador Collection
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature > Contemporary literature (from 1945); Fiction > Narrative literature > Essays, feuilletons, literary criticism, interviews; Social sciences, law, business > Media, communication > Journalism; Vietnam, Postwar 20th century history, from c 1945 to c 2000, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Journalism, HISTORY / Modern / 20th Century, HISTORY / Military / United States, Reportage & collected journalism, Asian History, History of the Americas, True war and combat stories, Reportage, journalism or collected columns, War & defence operations, c 1955 to c 1975 (Vietnam War period)