Dispatches

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' The best book I have ever read on men & war in our time.' John Le Carre ' Having read Dispatches it is difficult to convey the impact of total experience as all the facades of patriotism heroism & the whole colossal fraud of American intervention fall away to the bare bones of fear war & death' William S. Burroughs ' Splendid.. .he brings alive the terror of combat in a way that rivals All Quiet on the Western Front' Tom Wolfe ' In the great line of Crane Orwell & Hemingway.. .he seems to have brought to this book the ear of a musician & the eye of a painter Frank Zappa & Francis Bacon' Washington Post ' We have all spent ten years trying to explain what happened to our heads & our lives in the decade we finally survived -- but Michael Herr's Dispatches puts all the rest of us in the shade' Hunter S. Thompson ' If it were only unconventional journalism it would stand with the best there is -- but it's a good deal more than that.. .I believe it may be the best personal journal about war about any war that any writer has ever accomplished' Robert Stone