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Dispatches by Michael Herr audiobook

Dispatches

By Michael Herr
Read by Ray Porter

Blackstone Publishing
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One of the greatest examples of war journalism ever written, Michael Herr’s collection of dispatches from the front lines of the Vietnam War reveal with shattering impact how that war differed from any combat theatre fought before. Herr’s clearheaded yet unsparing retellings of the day-to-day events in Vietnam take on the force of poetry, capturing the unique flavor of the time and place and finding clarity in one of the most incomprehensible events in our modern era. A National Book Critics Circle finalist and highly acclaimed upon its publication, this modern classic retains its powerful resonance as America finds itself in the midst of another military quagmire.

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Summary

A New York Times Pick of Books of the Century

A GQ Pick of Modern Classics

A Washington Post Top 10 Book to Read if You Loved THE POST

A London Guardian Pick for Top 10 Books on 1960s America

One of the greatest examples of war journalism ever written, Michael Herr’s collection of dispatches from the front lines of the Vietnam War reveal with shattering impact how that war differed from any combat theatre fought before. Herr’s clearheaded yet unsparing retellings of the day-to-day events in Vietnam take on the force of poetry, capturing the unique flavor of the time and place and finding clarity in one of the most incomprehensible events in our modern era. A National Book Critics Circle finalist and highly acclaimed upon its publication, this modern classic retains its powerful resonance as America finds itself in the midst of another military quagmire.

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Editorial Reviews

“Like Homer’s Iliad, Herr’s war stories seem suited to being spoken rather than read. Ray Porter provides the perfect clear, clipped, but not overdramatic narration. Porter’s occasional character voices enrich the text without distracting from it.” —AudioFile
“The best book I have ever read on men and war in our time.” —John le Carré, #1 New York Times bestselling author
“We have all spent ten years trying to explain what happened to our heads and our lives in the decade we finally survived—but Michael Herr’s Dispatches puts the rest of us in the shade.” —Hunter S. Thompson, New York Times bestselling author
“The most indispensable personal account of the cruelty and violence of modern warfare.” —GQ magazine
“The best book to have been written about the Vietnam War…Nothing else so far has even come close to conveying how different this war was from any we fought—or how utterly different were the methods and the men who fought for us.” —New York Times Book Review
“Herr reaches an excruciating level of intensity…The premier war correspondence of Vietnam.” —Washington Post
“What a passionate, compassionate, brilliant book this is. With uncanny precision, [Dispatches] summons up the very essence of [the Vietnam War]…I believe it may be the best personal journal about war, any war, that any writer has ever accomplished.” —Chicago Tribune
“Captures the almost hallucinatory madness of the war…This is a compelling, truth-telling book with a visceral impact, its images stuck in the mind like shards from a pineapple bomb.” —Publishers Weekly
“Having read Dispatches, it is difficult to convey the impact of total experience as all the façades of patriotism, heroism, and the whole colossal fraud of American intervention fall away to the bare bones of fear, war, and death.” —William S. Burroughs, American writer, artist, and primary figure of the Beat Generation

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Author Bio: Michael Herr

Author Bio: Michael Herr

Michael Herr (1940–2016) was a novelist and war correspondent. He was born in Lexington, Kentucky, and began reporting from Vietnam for Esquire in the 1960s, during the height of the war. He later chronicled those experiences in his memoir, Dispatches. He is the author of three other books, The Big Room, Walter Winchell, and Kubrick, and coauthor of the screenplays for Apocalypse Now and Full Metal Jacket.

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Available Formats : CD, MP3 CD
Category: Nonfiction/History
Runtime: 8.48
Audience: Adult
Language: English

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