Description
| Product ID: | 9781447275060 |
| Product Form: | Paperback / softback |
| Country of Manufacture: | GB |
| Series: | Picador Classic |
| Title: | Dispatches |
| Authors: | Author: Michael Herr |
| Page Count: | 288 |
| Subjects: | Diaries, letters and journals, Diaries, letters & journals, Asian history, History, Military history: post-WW2 conflicts, Asian history, Postwar 20th century history, from c 1945 to c 2000, Vietnam War, Vietnam, c 1960 to c 1970 |
| Description: | Select Guide Rating A seminal classic of war reportage. <p><b>With an introduction by Kevin Powers.</b><br><br><b>A groundbreaking piece of journalism which inspired Stanley Kubrick's classic Vietnam War film <i>Full Metal Jacket.</i></b><br><br><i>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.</i><br><br>Michael Herr went to Vietnam as a war correspondent for <i>Esquire</i>. 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 its violence, but even more so in its honesty.<br><br> First published in 1977, <i>Dispatches</i> was a revolutionary piece of new journalism that evoked the experiences of soldiers in Vietnam and has forever shaped our understanding of the conflict. It is now a seminal classic of war reportage.</p> |
| Imprint Name: | Picador |
| Publisher Name: | Pan Macmillan |
| Country of Publication: | GB |
| Publishing Date: | 2015-01-01 |
