Michael Herr

Dispatches

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We took space back quickly, expensively, with total panic and close to maximum brutality. Our machine was devastating. And versatile. It could do everything but stop.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 and has forever… Mehr

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Produktdetails

Weitere Autoren: Powers, Kevin (Einf.)

ISBN: 978-1-4472-7506-0
EAN: 9781447275060
Produktnummer: 16385807
Verlag: Pan macmillan Ltd.
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 2015
Seitenangabe: 272 S.
Ausstattung: B-Format Paperback
Masse: H19.7 cm x B13.0 cm x D1.9 cm 243 g
Reihenbandnummer: 23
Gewicht: 243
Sonstiges: Ab 18 J.

Über den Autor

Michael Herr was born in 1940 in Syracuse, New York. He was a writer and former war correspondent best known as the author of Dispatches (1977), a memoir of his time as a correspondent for Esquire magazine (1967-1969) during the Vietnam War. He died in 2016, aged seventy-six.