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Some people think 1963's a long time ago; when a dead American in the jungle was an event, a grim th...

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...if that energy could have been channelled into anything more than noise, waste and pain it would ...

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Take the glamour out of war! I mean, how the bloody hell can you do _that_? Go and take the glamour ...

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Dispatches

We took space back quickly, expensively, with total panic and close to maximum brutality. Our machin...

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Dispatches

for years now there had been no country here but the war.

Well, good luck,’ the Vietnam verbal tic...It was as though people couldn’t stop themselves from say...

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Dispatches

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Michael Herr

Writer

Born: 1940-04-13

Died: 2016-06-23

Michael David Herr (April 13, 1940 – June 23, 2016) 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.More