Dispatches

Michael Herr's Dispatches is a groundbreaking work of journalism that inspired Stanley Kubrick's Full Metal Jacket and has forever shaped our understanding of the Vietnam War. It is a haunting account of the conflict's violence and brutality, and its impact on a generation of young men. First published in 1977, it is part of the Picador Collection and is a must-read for anyone interested in modern literature.

Format: Paperback / softback
Length: 272 pages
Publication date: 08 August 2024
Publisher: Pan Macmillan

‘The best book I have ever read on men and war in our time’ – John Le Carré

The groundbreaking work of journalism which inspired Stanley Kubrick’s classic Vietnam War film, Full Metal Jacket.

Michael Herr went to Vietnam as a war correspondent for Esquire. 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.

First published in 1977, Dispatches was a revolutionary piece of new journalism that evoked the experiences of soldiers in Vietnam which has forever shaped our understanding of the conflict.

'Having read Dispatches, it is difficult to convey the impact of total experience as all the facades of patriotism, heroism and the whole colossal fraud of American intervention fall away to the bare bones of fear, war and death' - William S. Burroughs

Part of the Picador Collection, a series showcasing the best of modern literature.

Weight: 194g
Dimension: 197 x 130 x 17 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781035038947