{"product_id":"dispatches-9780679735250","title":"Dispatches","description":"\u003cb\u003e\"The best book to have been written about the Vietnam War\" (\u003ci\u003eThe New York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e); an instant classic straight from\u003cb\u003e the front lines.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eFrom its terrifying opening pages to its final eloquent words, \u003ci\u003eDispatches \u003c\/i\u003emakes 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eDispatches \u003c\/i\u003eis among the most blistering and compassionate accounts of war in our literature.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMichael Herr was a novelist and war correspondent. Born in Lexington, Kentucky in 1940, he began reporting from Vietnam for \u003ci\u003eEsquire\u003c\/i\u003e in the 1960s, during the height of the war. He later chronicled those experiences in his memoir, \u003ci\u003eDispatches. \u003c\/i\u003eHe is the author of three other books, \u003ci\u003e The Big Room, Walter Winchell, \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eKubrick\u003c\/i\u003e, and coauthor of the\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003escreenplays for \u003ci\u003eApocalypse Now \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eFull Metal Jacket.\u003c\/i\u003e He died in 2016.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Vintage","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50613501165842,"sku":"9780679735250","price":13.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_00555d4e-765e-426c-8b82-edefa4ad95ed.jpg?v=1732404678","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/dispatches-9780679735250","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}