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Dispatches
Michael Herr
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Description for Dispatches
Paperback. With an introduction by Kevin Powers. A groundbreaking piece of journalism which inspired Stanley Kubrick's classic Vietnam War film Full Metal Jacket. Series: Picador Classics. Num Pages: 272 pages. BIC Classification: 1FMV; 3JJPK; BJ; HBJF; HBLW3; HBWS2. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 198 x 130 x 19. Weight in Grams: 242.
With an introduction by Kevin Powers.
A groundbreaking piece of journalism which inspired Stanley Kubrick's classic Vietnam War film Full Metal Jacket.
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 ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Pan Macmillan
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Series
Picador Classics
Condition
New
Number of Pages
288
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781447275060
SKU
V9781447275060
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99-1
About Michael Herr
Michael Herr was born in 1940 in 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.
Reviews for Dispatches
The best book I have ever read on men and war in our time.
John Le Carré Having read Dispatches, it is difficult to convey the impact of total experience as all the facades of patriotism, heroism and the whole colossal fraud of American intervention fall away to the bare bones of fear, war and death
William S. ... Read more
John Le Carré Having read Dispatches, it is difficult to convey the impact of total experience as all the facades of patriotism, heroism and the whole colossal fraud of American intervention fall away to the bare bones of fear, war and death
William S. ... Read more