‘The best book I have ever read on men and war in our time’ – John Le Carré. Michael Herr went to Vietnam as a war correspondent for Esquire. He returned to recount the true story in all its delirious madness and brutality, focusing on the conflict and the compelling, destructive effect it had on a generation of young men. His relentless narrative is haunting in its violence, but even more so in its honesty. First published in 1977, Dispatches was a groundbreaking piece of new journalism that captured the experiences of soldiers in Vietnam, which has forever shaped our understanding of the conflict. A pioneering work of journalism, part of the Picador Collection, that inspired Stanley Kubrick's classic film Full Metal Jacket.