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A review by lewreviews
Dispatches by Michael Herr
5.0
What a book. So gut-wrenching and it just holds you there at this point of suspense and shock throughout the whole thing. War is truly horrible. But Herr perfectly articulates the desire for action, the desire to return, the wild reality of war as entertainment. The argument that war is glorified for a reason, because fighting is glorious. It’s all just so crazy.
And the way he describes such horrifying events so nonchalantly is unsettling; every page there’s something shocking but it’s rattled off as just another day in the office. I can only imagine what went on inside soldier’s heads.
Shout out to the owner of a book store who recommended this to me - the things you won’t find whilst shopping on Amazon.
And the way he describes such horrifying events so nonchalantly is unsettling; every page there’s something shocking but it’s rattled off as just another day in the office. I can only imagine what went on inside soldier’s heads.
Shout out to the owner of a book store who recommended this to me - the things you won’t find whilst shopping on Amazon.