Dispatches

<p><b>With an introduction by Kevin Powers.</b><br><br><b>A groundbreaking piece of journalism which inspired Stanley Kubrick's classic Vietnam War film <i>Full Metal Jacket.</i></b><br><br><i>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.</i><br><br>Michael Herr went to Vietnam as a war correspondent for <i>Esquire</i>. 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.<br><br> First published in 1977, <i>Dispatches</i> was a revolutionary piece of new journalism that evoked the experiences of soldiers in Vietnam and has forever shaped our understanding of the conflict. It is now a seminal classic of war reportage.</p>