Dispatches - Michael Herr

Category: History, Military
Language: EnglishKeywords: Vietnam War

Written by Michael Herr
Read by Ray Porter
Format: MP3
Bitrate: 32 Kbps
Unabridged

8.5 hrs
1977
Chapterized

“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.

Michael Herr, who wrote about the Vietnam War for Esquire magazine, gathered his years of notes from his front-line reporting and turned them into what many people consider the best account of the war to date, when published in 1977. He captured the feel of the war and how it differed from any theater of combat ever fought, as well as the flavor of the time and the essence of the people who were there.