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Pdf dispatches michael herr read online download read. Discover book depositorys huge selection of michael herr books online. A 25th anniversary commemorative edition of michael herr s text on the vietnam war. Michael david herr april, 1940 june 23, 2016 was an american writer and war correspondent, known as the author of dispatches 1977, a memoir of his time as a correspondent for esquire magazine 19671969 during the vietnam war. Mar 04, 2009 one of the greatest examples of war journalism ever written, michael herr s clearheaded yet unsparing retellings of the daytoday events in vietnam take on the force of poetry, finding clarity in one of the most incomprehensible events in our modern era. Herrs work doesnt so much loom over contemporary war writing as course within it, a dark ideal and omen all at once. Dispatches is among the most blistering and compassionate accounts of war in our literature.
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