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1. en.wikipedia.org › wiki › Dispatches_(book)Dispatches (book) - Wikipedia

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   Dispatches is a New Journalism book by Michael Herr that describes the author's experiences in Vietnam as a war correspondent for Esquire magazine. First published in 1977, Dispatches was one of the first pieces of American literature that portrayed the experiences of soldiers in the Vietnam War for American readers. Dispatches arrived late.

2. medium.com › adams-notebook › on-narratives-of-warOn Narratives of War. I read Michael Herr’s Dispatches (1977 ...

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   Jul 30, 2023 · Some soldiers do survive war of course, and Herr was one such; and men who survive war do tell their tales, as Herr did. But Dispatches is saying: these narratives cannot get at the heart of...

3. www.vox.com › 24 › 12027118Michael Herr is dead. Read a passage from Dispatches, his ...

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   Jun 24, 2016 · Michael Herr, the author of Dispatches and co-writer of Full Metal Jacket, is dead at 76. His masterpiece, Dispatches, has been out of fashion for a while, but when it was published in 1977, it...

4. www.goodreads.com › book › showDispatches by Michael Herr - Goodreads

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   Jan 1, 2001 · 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.

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5. books.google.com › books › aboutDispatches - Michael Herr - Google Books

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   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...

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6. openlibrary.org › books › OL22909656MDispatches by Michael Herr - Open Library

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   Sep 29, 2024 · 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.

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   What is dispatches by Michael Herr about?

   • 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. Michael Herr was a novelist and war correspondent.

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   What happened to Michael Herr's dispatches?

   • Read a passage from Dispatches, his masterpiece on the Vietnam War. Michael Herr, the author of Dispatches and co-writer of Full Metal Jacket, is dead at 76. His masterpiece, Dispatches, has been out of fashion for a while, but when it was published in 1977, it was widely regarded as the seminal work of new journalism about the Vietnam War.

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   Is Michael Herr dead?

   • Michael Herr is dead. Read a passage from Dispatches, his masterpiece on the Vietnam War. Michael Herr, the author of Dispatches and co-writer of Full Metal Jacket, is dead at 76.

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   Who was Michael Herr?

   • Michael Herr was a novelist and war correspondent. Born in Lexington, Kentucky in 1940, he began reporting from Vietnam for Esquire in the 1960s, during the height of the war. He later chronicled those experiences in his memoir, Dispatches.

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   When did Michael Herr go to Vietnam?

   • Michael Herr went to Vietnam for eighteen months between 1967 and 1969 as a war correspondent for Esquire Magazine. This period happened to coincide with the major escalation of the war, The Tet Offensive (30 January–23 September 1968). The focus of the book is mainly around The Battle of Huế and The Battle of Khe Sanh.

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   Is dispatch a true story?

   • After publishing Dispatches, Herr disclosed that parts of the book were invented, and that it would be better for it not to be regarded as journalism. In a 1990 interview with Los Angeles Times, he admitted that the characters Day Tripper and Mayhew in the book are "totally fictional characters" and went on to say: A lot of Dispatches is fictional.

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8. www.panmacmillan.com › authors › michael-herrDispatches by Michael Herr - Pan Macmillan

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   Aug 8, 2024 · Synopsis. Michael Herr went to Vietnam as a war correspondent for Esquire. He returned to tell the real story in all its hallucinatory madness and brutality, cutting to the quick of the conflict and its seductive, devastating impact on a generation of young men....