Dispatches - Hardcover
A 25th anniversary commemorative edition of Michael Herr's text on the Vietnam war. The author went to Vietnam in 1967 as correspondent for "Esquire" and writes in this book about how it was to fight in, and to survive, that war.
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Michael Herr, who wrote about the Vietnam War for Esquire magazine, gathered his years of notes from his front-line reporting and turned them into what many people consider the best account of the war to date, when published in 1977. He captured the feel of the war and how it differed from any theater of combat ever fought, as well as the flavor of the time and the essence of the people who were there. Since Dispatches was published, other excellent books have appeared on the war--may we suggest The Things They Carried, The Sorrow of War, We Were Soldiers Once ... and Young--but Herr's book was the first to hit the target head-on and remains a classic.
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- PublisherPan Macmillan
- Publication date1997
- ISBN 10 0330367412
- ISBN 13 9780330367417
- BindingHardcover
- Number of pages207
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Book Description Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. First Edition. 1997 first UK hardbback edition, shelf wear to the price clipped dust jacket, previous owner's blind stamp, bookseller's marks. Orders received by 3pm Sent from the UK that weekday. Seller Inventory # cb077-1123-0371
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Book Description Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. A Fine tight unread copy in a Fine bright unclipped dust jacket. Michael Herr went to Vietnam in 1967 virtually unknown as a writer but, armed with press credentials for Esquire Magazine, he quickly rose above the crowd of writers covering the war with his brilliant, unorthodox prose. Herr's six extended pieces in this collection capture the war and its participants like no other writer except for Tim O'Brian in his equally masterful "The Things They Carried." Herr was one of the original Gonzo New Journalists in the company of such literary trail-cutters as Hunter S Thompson, Tom Wolfe, Truman Capote and Gay Talese. Herr when not imbedded on numerous marine and army operations spent many off hours in the company of three other flamboyant correspondents: Tim Page, Dana Stone and Sean Flynn (Errol Flynn's son). Photographer Page would survive his experience in Vietnam but in 1970, while traveling by motorcycle in Cambodia, Flynn and Dana Stone (on assignment for Time magazine and CBS News respectively) were captured by communist guerrillas at a roadblock on Highway One. They were never heard from again and their remains have never been found. Herr found himself in as much danger as the soldiers he set out to document in a war that was more disillusioning than understandable. He was with the marines during the prolonged siege of Khe Sanh and most effectively captured the hallucinatory madness of the battle. "Dispatches" is as good as (war) writing gets; Herr puts the reader right where he is, so that his experience becomes yours which is about as close as most people would ever want to get to the real thing. Seller Inventory # 27293
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