"The best book to have been written about the Vietnam War" (The New York Times Book Review); an instant classic straight from the front lines.From its terrifying opening pages to its final eloquent words, Dispatches makes us see, in unforgettable and unflinching detail, the chaos and fervor of the war and the surreal insanity of life in that singular combat zone. Michael Herr’s unsparing, unorthodox retellings of the day-to-day events in Vietnam t...

‘The best book I have ever read on men and war in our time’ – **John Le CarréThe groundbreaking work of journalism which inspired Stanley Kubrick’s classic Vietnam War film, Full Metal Jacket.**Michael Herr went to Vietnam as a war correspondent for Esquire. 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 m...

Fresh in his boots and three days in-country, Michael Herr is in a Chinook when a young soldier across from him is gunned. “It took me a month to lose that feeling of being a spectator to something that was part game, part show.”Written in unforgettable and unflinching detail, Herr captures the chaos and fervor of the war and the surreal insanity of life in that singular combat zone. Selected from Dispatches, one of "the best book to have been written about the Vietnam War...

" L'un des textes les plus justes jamais écrits sur le réalisateur américain. " – Le Monde, Samuel Blumenfeld, 02/07/2016Le réalisateur culte, le reclus le plus célèbre et secret du 7e art, l'autodidacte de génie : rarement réalisateur se sera autant dérobé derrière sa légende que Stanley Kubrick. Manquait donc un portrait à hauteur d'homme, réalisé par l'un des rares privilégiés ayant appartenu au cercle très fermé des proches de l'artiste : Michael Herr, qui fut son ami, ...

Nel gennaio del 1999, mentre stava terminando il montaggio di Eyes Wide Shut, Stanley Kubrick telefonò a Michael Herr, con cui aveva sceneggiato Full Metal Jacket, e disse che sarebbe stato felice di fare una lunga intervista con lui in occasione dell'uscita del film. Si erano conosciuti nel 1980 e per anni avevano scritto insieme quello che è ritenuto da molti il più grande film di guerra di tutti i tempi, ma la loro amicizia era durata ben oltre Full Metal Jacket, e quando l'improvvisa m...

"The best book to have been written about the Vietnam War" (The New York Times Book Review); an instant classic straight from the front lines.From its terrifying opening pages to its final eloquent words, Dispatches makes us see, in unforgettable and unflinching detail, the chaos and fervor of the war and the surreal insanity of life in that singular combat zone. Michael Herr’s unsparing, unorthodox retellings of the day-to-day events in Vietnam t...

For generations on the Big Island of Hawaii, the women of the Pono family have guarded the secret hiding place of the bones of Queen Ka'ahumanu, King Kamehameha's favorite wife and powerful ruler herself. Now as Haunani, matriarch of the family, feels old age approaching, she must turn over her responsibilities, and the family lands, to one of her four daughters. But which one?

In this sixth book of the Kohala Coast Mystery series, a mother from Kauai grieves for the death of her daughter and the theft of her treasured Elvis remembrance. She follows the killer's trail to the Big Island, there to bring the women of the Pono family into her search. But the women of the Pono family have other problems of their own. Day by day they watch the matriarch of the family, Haunani, drift further and further away into the abyss of dementia. Teri Pono is attracted to her mart...

Verslagen uit de grote oorlogen, vastgelegd door de mannen die er bij waren en het konden navertellen. De weerwolf van Arundel, Patrouille, Een trein opblazen, Verslagen uit Vietnam, Vorst Andrej trekt ten strijde, Het veulen, Loopgravenoorlog, De ondergang, Gevecht op de heuveltop, De tweede ontmoeting.

Con prólogo de Roberto Saviano.Cuando Michael Herr fue a Vietnam en 1967 como corresponsal de Esquire era un escritor prácticamente desconocido. Pero fue ferviente y unánimemente alabado, ya desde el principio, tras publicar su famoso artículo «Sorbos infernales», y su reputación fue en aumento con la progresiva aparición de más trabajos suyos. Despachos de guerra confirmó lo que ya sabían sus primeros admiradores: nadie ha escrito de modo tan elo...

Der Autor hat sich entschlossen dieses Pamphlet zu schreiben, um seine Enttäuschung über Deutschland zum Ausdruck zu bringen. Insbesondere die Entwicklung Deutschlands in den letzten 15 Jahren gibt ihm Grund zur Sorge, zu Frust, sehr oft zu Ärger. Bei genauer Betrachtung unseres Landes, vor allem aus dem Blickwinkel des Auslands, muss man feststellen, dass Verfallssymptome der Gesellschaft in erheblichem Maß aufgetreten sind, sei es der Mangel an Respekt, sei es die Verlogenheit, die Falsc...

Die Anthologie 'Erzählungen von Herren und Knechten – 3 klassische Romane über Dienstbarkeit' präsentiert eine erlesene Sammlung von Werken, die sich mit den dynamischen Beziehungen zwischen Herrschenden und Dienenden auseinandersetzen. In dieser einzigartigen Zusammenstellung finden sich sowohl facettenreiche Erzähltechniken als auch diverse Perspektiven, die die komplexen Machtverhältnisse beleuchten. Von psychologischer Tiefe bis hin zur sozialkritischen Analyse erfassen diese Geschicht...