Dispatches

<p><b>&lsquo;The best book I have ever read on men and war in our time&rsquo; </b>&ndash; <b>John Le Carré</b><br><br>Michael Herr went to Vietnam as a war correspondent for <i>Esquire</i>. 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. His unflinching account is haunting in its violence, but even more so in its honesty.<br><br>First published in 1977, <i>Dispatches</i> was a revolutionary piece of new journalism that evoked the experiences of soldiers in Vietnam which has forever shaped our understanding of the conflict.<br><br><b>A groundbreaking piece of journalism, part of the Picador Collection, which inspired Stanley Kubrick&rsquo;s classic Vietnam War film <i>Full Metal Jacket</i>.</b></p>