An analysis/review of the book Dispatches, by Michal Herr

Title: An analysis/review of the book Dispatches, by Michal Herr
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An analysis/review of the book Dispatches, by Michal Herr

Dispatches Paper As I read Dispatches by Michael Herr, there is an overwhelming sense of fear and horror. His dispatches are populated by soldiers called 'grunts', whose enemy was everywhere and nowhere. Their maps were blank; their names for the enemy, 'Charlie' or 'VC', told them nothing. How do you recognize them? They all wear black pajamas; they are all alien to us. They are everywhere. That's where the paranoia began. Herr's dispatches are disturbing …showed first 75 words of 1016 total…

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…showed last 75 words of 1016 total…the beginning of the book Herr describes the horrors of night patrol by describing his own fear. He then informs the bewildered reader that this is a bit too much for him and therefore takes his journalistic eye somewhere else. The difference between a journalist and a soldier is that the soldier can't leave when he feels like it and so he doesn't have the luxury of drama. Unfortunately, most of this book is drama.

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