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Michael Herr’s *Dispatches* reports directly from the front lines of the Vietnam War. The book presents a series of unflinching, poetic accounts that reveal the chaos, fervor, and surreal insanity of life in that combat zone. Herr’s unorthodox narrative style brings clarity to one of the era’s most incomprehensible and nightmarish conflicts.
First publish date: 1977
Genre: Memoir/Personal Memoir
Authors: Michael Herr
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