Dispatches

Title: Dispatches
Author: Michael Herr
Copyright: Hardback 2009
Source: Library

published description: Written on the front lines in Vietnam, Dispatches became an immediate classic of war reportage when it was published in 1977.

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.

All were good, real, beautiful (whether in a heartbreaking, violent, or other way). Some of the stories didn't hit me.Others sucked me in and made me feel like I was right there.