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# Dispatches

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Review: A wild trip - My friend Eric, a prominent journalist in his own right, is off to Southeast Asia to retrace his illustrious father’s steps, who reported on the Vietnam War 50 years ago. In preparation for his findings, he’s having me do some reading. “Dispatches” is what he recommended, and I can see why: it’s a total assault on the senses. It’s visceral, epic, humble, bombastic, naïve and cynical all in one. And it’s laugh-out-loud hilarious. It’s not a history, of course. It’s a trip, rather. Michael Herr proudly offers a view from the lowest possible vantage point. His account may not even be 100% factual: rather than waste his time interviewing the officers, he spends all his time with “the grunts;” it’s their story he sets out to tell, and if some of it they made up, so be it. In short, if you want to find out what it FELT like to fight the war, if you want to feel the horror and the confusion, if it’s the Vietnam era “All Quiet on the Western Front” you’re looking for, then you’ve come to the right place.
Review: Great book - A really good book that gives a really good idea of the true horror of war. I would recommend this book to anyone who thinks war is in any way glamorous.

## Technical Specifications

| Specification | Value |
|---------------|-------|
| Best Sellers Rank | 415,359 in Books ( See Top 100 in Books ) 267 in Historical Essays, Journals, Letters & True Accounts 2,547 in Essays, Journals & Letters 6,905 in Society, Politics & Philosophy |
| Customer reviews | 4.5 4.5 out of 5 stars (2,949) |
| Dimensions  | 12.9 x 1.6 x 19.7 cm |
| ISBN-10  | 0330255738 |
| ISBN-13  | 978-0330255738 |
| Item weight  | 186 g |
| Language  | English |
| Print length  | 272 pages |
| Publication date  | 25 Oct. 1991 |
| Publisher  | Picador |
| Reading age  | 18 years and up |

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## Customer Reviews

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ A wild trip
*by A***N on 15 December 2017*

My friend Eric, a prominent journalist in his own right, is off to Southeast Asia to retrace his illustrious father’s steps, who reported on the Vietnam War 50 years ago. In preparation for his findings, he’s having me do some reading. “Dispatches” is what he recommended, and I can see why: it’s a total assault on the senses. It’s visceral, epic, humble, bombastic, naïve and cynical all in one. And it’s laugh-out-loud hilarious. It’s not a history, of course. It’s a trip, rather. Michael Herr proudly offers a view from the lowest possible vantage point. His account may not even be 100% factual: rather than waste his time interviewing the officers, he spends all his time with “the grunts;” it’s their story he sets out to tell, and if some of it they made up, so be it. In short, if you want to find out what it FELT like to fight the war, if you want to feel the horror and the confusion, if it’s the Vietnam era “All Quiet on the Western Front” you’re looking for, then you’ve come to the right place.

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Great book
*by M***K on 27 April 2025*

A really good book that gives a really good idea of the true horror of war. I would recommend this book to anyone who thinks war is in any way glamorous.

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐ What is this?
*by D***W on 5 June 2011*

As a university teacher I am forever telling my students to "Define your terms." Before any Literary work can be fully judged and evaluated a clear and binding set of parameters must be established; benchmarks against which the piece in question can be compared, contrasted and most importantly evaluated. If no terms are defined, and no frame of reference draw or defined, then there is no way we can evaluate writing, because what are we comparing it to? My problem therefore with this book, is how to evaluate it. What is it? What does it want to be judged as? Where should we put it in the library? Amongst whose company should it sit? These are very fundamental questions that require unambiguous answers if we are to set about processing this work as it clearly deserves to be processed. Whilst I understand this work to be Herr's catharsis, on a more practical level is it a novel? a memoir? a historical document? Is it fiction? non-fiction? Is it journalism? war correspondence? Maybe I could set it in one of these boxes, but it would not sit comfortably in a single one. And the one I might elect might not be the same one Herr would wish it to be read as. It's rather akin to a person of mixed ethnicity going through immigration and not knowing which is the better of the boxes to tick - there being no one that correctly denotes their ethnicity. All of this confusion does not really allow the Work to be fully appreciated and accurately processed and as I tell my students who don't define their terms correctly, whilst I CAN read your submission - because I can't accurately appraise it, your score will suffer as a consequence. To the work: There is no doubt that this is an important piece of social and cultural heritage which undoubtedly adds to the Historical Record for the latter half of the 1960s. However, because it is so clearly a period-piece it suffers somewhat from both its tone and use of language and this is something that makes it difficult reading. Linguistically, the '60s was a fascinating period which gave brief rise to a wealth of youth-driven modes of communication and an abundance of periodic vocabulary. Fortunately (or unfortunately) when the door was closed on flower-power etc. linguistics returned to normal. This work therefore, and the language contained within the prose often reads akin to Shakespeare and therefore requires additional commentary to clarify and contextualize the somewhat dated language. As per the previous point and comments made by other reviewers, this work is a hard slog. Due in part to the aforementioned dated linguistics, and due in part to the 'Gonzo' style of rendering, Herr really does make you take a machete and hack your way through the terrain. Certainly before it lets up in the Fifth Act 'Colleagues' the reader is right there with the action, not necessarily the physical 'blood-and-guts', but rather the spiritual, the metaphysical, the psychological and the ontological. In summation: This is a very fascinating period-piece and a bona-fide part of the Historical Record. It should be read as part of a wider trawl through the unprecedented volume Literature that both the '60s and the Viet Nam War gave rise to. Viewed as a historical document set in the linguistic form of the late '60s 'Counter-Culture', this text works admirable and justifies its longevity and abundant praise. Recommended.

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