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Condition
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Release Year
1991
ISBN
9780679735250
Book Title
Dispatches
Book Series
Vintage International Ser.
Publisher
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Item Length
8 in
Publication Year
1991
Format
Trade Paperback
Language
English
Item Height
0.7 in
Author
Michael Herr
Genre
Biography & Autobiography, History
Topic
Personal Memoirs, Military / Vietnam War, Military
Item Weight
7.8 Oz
Item Width
5.1 in
Number of Pages
272 Pages

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Product Identifiers

Publisher
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
ISBN-10
0679735259
ISBN-13
9780679735250
eBay Product ID (ePID)
132623

Product Key Features

Book Title
Dispatches
Number of Pages
272 Pages
Language
English
Publication Year
1991
Topic
Personal Memoirs, Military / Vietnam War, Military
Genre
Biography & Autobiography, History
Author
Michael Herr
Book Series
Vintage International Ser.
Format
Trade Paperback

Dimensions

Item Height
0.7 in
Item Weight
7.8 Oz
Item Length
8 in
Item Width
5.1 in

Additional Product Features

Intended Audience
Trade
LCCN
90-050771
Dewey Edition
21
Reviews
"The best book I have ever read on men and war in our time." --John le Carré "In the great line of Crane, Orwell, and Hemingway . . . Herr reaches an excruciating level of intensity . . . He seems to have brought to this book the ear of a musician and the eye of a painter . . . The premier war correspondence of Vietnam." -- The Washington Post " . . . Dispatches puts the rest of us in the shade." --Hunter S. Thompson, "The best book I have ever read on men and war in our time." -John le Carré"In the great line of Crane, Orwell, and Hemingway . . . Herr reaches an excruciating level of intensity . . . He seems to have brought to this book the ear of a musician and the eye of a painter . . . The premier war correspondence of Vietnam." - The Washington Post, "The best book I have ever read on men and war in our time." -John le Carré "In the great line of Crane, Orwell, and Hemingway . . . Herr reaches an excruciating level of intensity . . . He seems to have brought to this book the ear of a musician and the eye of a painter . . . The premier war correspondence of Vietnam." -The Washington Post From the Hardcover edition., "The best book I have ever read on men and war in our time." -John le Carré "In the great line of Crane, Orwell, and Hemingway . . . Herr reaches an excruciating level of intensity . . . He seems to have brought to this book the ear of a musician and the eye of a painter . . . The premier war correspondence of Vietnam." - The Washington Post From the Hardcover edition., "The best book I have ever read on men and war in our time." -John le Carré"In the great line of Crane, Orwell, and Hemingway . . . Herr reaches an excruciating level of intensity . . . He seems to have brought to this book the ear of a musician and the eye of a painter . . . The premier war correspondence of Vietnam." - The Washington Post From the Hardcover edition., "The best book I have ever read on men and war in our time." --John le Carr "In the great line of Crane, Orwell, and Hemingway . . . Herr reaches an excruciating level of intensity . . . He seems to have brought to this book the ear of a musician and the eye of a painter . . . The premier war correspondence of Vietnam." -- The Washington Post " . . .  Dispatches  puts the rest of us in the shade." --Hunter S. Thompson 
Dewey Decimal
959.7/043373
Synopsis
"The best book to have been written about the Vietnam War" ( The New York Times Book Review ); an instant classic straight from the front lines. 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.
LC Classification Number
DS559.5.H47 1991

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  • by attala4yzh
    May 09, 2025Top favorable review

    Great Book, Great Seller!!

    Probably the best book on the Vietnam war I have read since reading "NAM". I highly recommend this book. You'll especially love pages 17-19!!!

    Verified purchase: YesCondition: Pre-OwnedSold by: second.sale

  • by steveziv
    Nov 26, 2016Top critical review

    Stylish, too stylish for me

    I'm a fan of straight forward writing that tells a story. Within that framework there's plenty of opportunity for all the literary devices writers love to use. This book gets bogged down in a lot of descriptions and dialogue that don't make a lot of sense if you weren't there. You might read half a page with only a vague idea of what is going on before you get to a section that is more straightforward. Add to that the relatively tiresome recitation of tactical maneuvers and you're left slogging through a lot of dead space to get to the good stuff. I know this book is acclaimed as the definitive work on the Vietnam war but maybe less so for those of us who weren't there. I've read a couple other books on the war and enjoyed them more.

    Verified purchase: YesCondition: Pre-OwnedSold by: bluezoisite001

  • by rgweb63_6
    Nov 03, 2020

    Absolutely the Best Account of Vietnam

    A very personal account of Herr's time in Vietnam, bringing back the insanity and stupidity of the war and all of its sadness and tragedy. It is correctly described as one of the greatest accounts of the war or any war yet written - what were we thinking?

    Verified purchase: YesCondition: Pre-OwnedSold by: betterworldbooks

  • by dgt5623
    Aug 15, 2024

    Up front in the action.

    It was a very interesting read about a journalist covering the war in Vietnam.

    Verified purchase: YesCondition: Pre-OwnedSold by: thrift.books

  • by dukejb26
    May 13, 2024

    Great book. Thanks!

    Great book. Thanks!

    Verified purchase: YesCondition: Pre-OwnedSold by: thrift.books

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