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.