OL4482600W Page-progression lr Page_number_confidence 92.45 Pages 214 Ppi 500 Related-external-id urn:isbn:0340499796 His involvement as a scriptwriter in Apocalypse Now and Full Metal Jacket also extended his influence over popular perceptions of the war, and so it is pertinent to ask how. Dispatches is among the most blistering and compassionate accounts of war in our literature. Their maps were blank their names for the enemy, Charlie or VC, told them nothing. In the canon of Vietnam War literature that is taking shape Michael Herr's reportage, collected in book form as Dispatches in 1977 and reissued in 1989 has an assured place. 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. His dispatches are populated by soldiers called grunts, whose enemy was everywhere and nowhere. Urn:lcp:dispatches00mich:epub:3b987696-0a29-4ad4-8a0c-dd663b41d8e0 Foldoutcount 0 Identifier dispatches00mich Identifier-ark ark:/13960/t2g74ms0c Isbn 0330255738ĩ780330255738 Ocr_converted abbyy-to-hocr 1.1.20 Ocr_module_version 0.0.17 Openlibrary OL10487957M Openlibrary_edition As I read Dispatches by Michael Herr, there is an overwhelming sense of fear and horror. Publication date 1991 Topics Herr, Michael, Vietnam War, 1961-1975 - Personal narratives, American Publisher New York.

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