Dispatches

De: Michael Herr

Narrado por: Ray Porter

"The best book to have been written about the Vietnam War" (The New York Times Book Review); an instant classic straight from the front lines.

From its terrifying opening to its final eloquent words, Dispatches makes us see, in unforgettable and unflinching detail, the chaos and fervor of the war and the surreal insanity of life in that singular combat zone. 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.

©2011 Michael Herr (P)2022 Random House Audio

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“The best book I have ever read on men and war in our time.” (John le Carré)

"Dispatches puts the rest of us in the shade." (Hunter S. Thompson)

“In the great line of Crane, Orwell, and Hemingway...Herr reaches an excruciating level of intensity.... He seems to have brought to this book the ear of a musician and the eye of a painter.... The premier war correspondence of Vietnam.” (The Washington Post)

fantastic recollection

incredible and vivid recounting of a defining event in American being. RIP to a legend who just wanted to be am Oscar Meyer wiener

Amazing!

I can’t recommend this audiobook enough. Fantastic vivid writing. Do yourself a favor and listen to it! Best book about the war that I’ve read.

A remarkable performance of a remarkable book.

Dispatches is the most beautifully written book about the horrors of war. This reading does the content justice. I would absolutely recommend it.

Flowery Writing Explaining Horrors of the War

The author is a reporter/writer, NOT a war veteran. It shows in his overly metaphorical interpretation of the brutality of the Vietnam War. He will witness a scene which he describes in great detail, but the reality can be lost within his flowery writing and metaphors which takes away from the cold hard descriptions a witness would tell.

Everything about this book kicks ass

The grunts in Vietnam told Herr, "Tell the story," and he did. Not the jive from Westmoreland and Nixon, but the true story, the RPG in your chest story; the hallucinated story; the villages ablaze story. Herr's Vietnam is the one we didn't read about in newspapers. His is the one we can trust.

All of the reviews are correct.

I struggle to give coherent words in praise. please read or listen. My Dad was there I've tried to infer about his experiences there. Herr fills in some of the blanks, with eloquent , frightening detail.

Epic book on Vietnam

I read this book in the 1980’s on a War that ended the year I graduated from High School.
Believe me Vietnam was on our mind.
Sean Flinn, Tim Page, Dana Stone, it’s a wonderful and heart wrenching work.

Fascinating

true story well written by the man that was in Vietnam and has the ability to tell his story that you can feel in your soul.

Audio even better than reading it

I first read this book thirty years ago as part of a graduate school seminar on literature from the Vietnam war. Ray Porter does a fantastic job of really bringing the story to life. I got much more out of it from listening to it vs. reading it.

ever seen a Vietnam war movie...

if you've ever seen a Vietnam war movie chances are there was at least one line or one scene in that film borrowed from this book.

Fantastic narration and better writing.