In January, Picador reissued Michael Herr’s classic book on the Vietnam War, Dispatches, and with today marking the 40th anniversary of the Fall of Saigon now seems the perfect time to revisit the book’s pyrotechnic prose and harrowing, still-relevant lessons.
While Vietnam may be the book’s setting, war, in the abstract, is its subject, and thus it still has much to tell us. Not only about what we did and had done to us in South-East Asia, but about what we are continuing to do and have done to us elsewhere: killing and being killed in the pursuit of ends both dubious and otherwise; sending young men and women off to become factory workers on the assembly line of what Iraq veteran Kevin Powers, in his introduction to the new edition, describes as death’s “most efficient delivery system”.
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