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Michael herr, who wrote about the vietnam war for esquire magazine, gathered his years of notes. Dispatches ebook by michael herr 9780307814166 rakuten. One of the greatest examples of war journalism ever written, michael herr s collection of dispatches from the front lines of the vietnam war reveal with shattering impact how that war differed from any combat theatre fought before. Born in lexington, kentucky in 1940, he began reporting from vietnam for esquire in the 1960s, during the height of the war. Illumination rounds is from michael herr s memoir, dispatches. Written on the front lines in vietnam, dispatches became an immediate classic of war reportage when it was published in 1977. Michael herrs unorthodox and unorthodox reinterpretations of daily events in. From its terrifying opening pages to its final eloquent. Michael david herr april, 1940 june 23, 2016 was an american writer and war correspondent, known as the author of dispatches 1977, a memoir of his time as a correspondent for esquire magazine 19671969 during the vietnam war. Dispatches is among the most blistering and compassionate accounts of war in our literature. Dispatches vintage international series by michael herr.
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