âe~The best book I have ever read on men and war in our time.âe(tm) John Le Carré âe~Having read Dispatches, it is difficult to convey the impact of total experience as all the facades of patriotism, heroism and the whole colossal fraud of American intervention fall away to the bare bones of fear, war and deathâe(tm) William S. Burroughs âe~Splendid . . . he brings alive the terror of combat in a way that rivals All Quiet on the Western Frontâe(tm) Tom Wolfe âe~In the great line of Crane, Orwell and Hemingway . . . he seems to have brought to this book the ear of a musician and the eye of a painter, Frank Zappa and Francis Baconâe(tm) Washington Post âe~We have all spent ten years trying to explain what happened to our heads and our lives in the decade we finally survived âe" but Michael Herrâe(tm)s Dispatches puts all the rest of us in the shadeâe(tm) Hunter S. Thompson âe~If it were only unconventional journalism, it would stand with the best there is âe" but it's a good deal more than that . . . I believe it may be the best personal journal about war, about any war, that any writer has ever accomplishedâe(tm) Robert Stone