num_pages: 260
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.
language: English
title: Dispatches
titlecomplete: Dispatches
genres: Asia, Biography, Military History, Military Fiction, American History, War, Nonfiction, History, Memoir, Journalism
ratings_count: 19352
awards: awardedAt: 220953600000
name: National Book Critics Circle Award
category: General Nonfiction, awardedAt: 252489600000
name: Premio Internacional de la Prensa
publisher: Vintage