When Michael Herr went to Vietnam in 1967 as a correspondent for Esquire, he was a virtually unknown writer. But he was unanimously praised after publishing his famous article "Hellish Sips," and his reputation grew as more and more of his work appeared. Dispatches confirmed what his early admirers already knew: no one has ever written, or is likely to write so eloquently, forcefully, and terrifyingly about what it was like to fight (and survive)...
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