Dispatches, Michael Herr
Dispatches, Michael Herr
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Dispatches

Author: Michael Herr

Narrator: Ray Porter

Unabridged: 8 hr 28 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 03/04/2009

Categories: Nonfiction, History

Synopsis

One of the greatest examples of war journalism ever written, Michael Herrs clearheaded yet unsparing retellings of the daytoday events in Vietnam take on the force of poetry, finding clarity in one of the most incomprehensible events in our modern era. A National Book Critics Circle finalist and highly acclaimed upon its publication, Dispatches still retains its resonance as America finds itself amidst another military quagmire.

About Michael Herr

Michael Herr (1940–2016) was a novelist and war correspondent. He was born in Lexington, Kentucky, and began reporting from Vietnam for Esquire in the 1960s, during the height of the war. He later chronicled those experiences in his memoir, Dispatches. He is the author of three other books, The Big Room, Walter Winchell, and Kubrick, and coauthor of the screenplays for Apocalypse Now and Full Metal Jacket.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Gene on January 06, 2008

Having been in VietNam and having been in some of the Marine Units that Michael Herr writes about in "Dispatches" is the best depiction of war in general and VietNam in particular that I have ever read. It started me on the path to healing that I had kept hidden since I came back from Nam. Thank You......more

Goodreads review by Maciek on February 07, 2017

"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 Presi......more

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