{"product_id":"dispatches","title":"Dispatches","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e‘The best book I have ever read on men and war in our time’ \u003c\/b\u003e– \u003cb\u003eJohn Le Carré\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMichael Herr went to Vietnam as a war correspondent for \u003ci\u003eEsquire\u003c\/i\u003e. He returned to tell the real story in all its hallucinatory madness and brutality, cutting to the quick of the conflict and its seductive, devastating impact on a generation of young men. His unflinching account is haunting in its violence, but even more so in its honesty.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFirst published in 1977, \u003ci\u003eDispatches\u003c\/i\u003e was a revolutionary piece of new journalism that evoked the experiences of soldiers in Vietnam which has forever shaped our understanding of the conflict.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eA groundbreaking piece of journalism, part of the Picador Collection, which inspired Stanley Kubrick’s classic Vietnam War film \u003ci\u003eFull Metal Jacket\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"MediaPlace","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57400217141630,"sku":"NW9781035038947","price":10.78,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1379\/1261\/files\/9781035038947.jpg?v=1778606070","url":"https:\/\/mediaplace.com\/products\/dispatches","provider":"MediaPlace","version":"1.0","type":"link"}