Dispatches by Michael Herr

Dispatches

Michael Herr

272 pages first pub 1977 (editions)

nonfiction history challenging informative slow-paced

Description

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...

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Moods

dark 76%
reflective 68%
informative 56%
challenging 48%
sad 48%
emotional 40%
tense 28%
adventurous 24%
funny 12%
mysterious 4%

Pace

medium 65%
slow 30%
fast 4%

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