Dispatches

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"He seems to have brought to this book the ear of a musician and the eye of a painter . . . the premier war correspondence of Vietnam."--Washington Post. "The best book I have ever read on men and war in our time."--John le Carre." . . . Dispatches puts the rest of us in the shade."--Hunter S. Thompson.

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Vietnam, man. Bomb 'em and feed 'em, bomb 'em and feed 'em""--a chopper pilot summarized the war strategy for Herr. And with Herr's belated volume of unfiled dispatches from the front, the awareness grows that this war--like no other since WW I--continues to produce a rich lode of literature, part litany, part exorcism, part macabre nostalgia. Like his buddies Scan Flynn and Dana Stone--later MIA in Cambodia--Herr was a correspondent with a license to see more than just a single mud hole. Using the ""Airmobility"" of the helicopters, he hopscotched the country from Hue to Danang to the DMZ to Saigon (""the subtle city war inside the war"" where corruption stank like musk oil). He was at Hue during the battle that reduced the old Imperial capital to rubble, at Khe Sanh when the grunts' expectations of another Alamo were running high. Between mortar shells and body bags he reflected on the mysterious smiles of the blank-eyed soldiers, smiles that said ""I'll tell you why I'm smiling, but it will make you crazy."" And Herr, who is full of twisted, hidden ironies, is all wrapped up in the craziness of the war, enthralled by the limitless ""variety of deaths and mutilations the war offered,"" and by the awful ""cheer-crazed"" language of the official communiques which always reported spirits high, weather fine. He knew, and his buddies knew, that this kind of reportage was ""psychotic vaudeville""--though not for a moment would he deny the harsh glamour of being a working war correspondent. He came home eventually, to do the ""Survivor Shuffle"" and miss Vietnam acutely, and he writes with a fierce, tight insistence that never lets go.

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Title	Dispatches Vintage International Series
Author	Michael Herr
Edition	reprint
Publisher	Vintage Books, 1977
Original from	the University of Michigan
Digitized	23 Apr 2004
ISBN	0679735259, 9780679735250
Length	260 pages
Subjects	Fiction / Men's Adventure Fiction / War & Military Herr, Michael History / Asia / Southeast Asia History / Military / Vietnam War Vietnam War, 1961-1975 Vietnam War, 1961-1975 - Personal narratives, American Vietnam War, 1961-1975/ Personal narratives, American Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975

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