The best book I have ever read on men and war in our time. --John le Carr In the great line of Crane, Orwell, and Hemingway . . . Herr reaches an excruciating level of intensity . . . He seems to have brought to this book the ear of a musician and the eye of a painter . . . The premier war correspondence of Vietnam. --The Washington Post . . . Dispatches puts the rest of us in the shade. --Hunter S. Thompson