Herr's writing is unique in that he does not write in a narrative style, but rather a post-modernist's tone that cannot be confined to a genre. Herr's work is a post-modern novel in that he does not follow a modern structure. The author is telling a story, but he is telling it through his disjointed articles rather than a personal narrative in novel or non-fiction form...
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The author is telling a story, but he is telling it through his disjointed articles rather than a personal narrative in novel or non-fiction form. This book is his fragmented thought, and remembrances about the war. Dispatches is about experience rather than objective truths or realities. Herr presents war as hell, and none of his real-life characters strive to be heroic, or larger than life in contrast to much of the modern literature written on war...
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American Pirsoners Of War In Vietnam The prisoners also routinely developed dysentery, beri beri, and sometimes suffered from constant massive dehydration. The food that the POWs had available was very little and almost always consisted of a large portion of rice because rice was the major staple crop for the Vietnamese...	8 / 2171
Why didn't You Get Me Out? This time the aircraft crashed and he had to hide from the Viet- Cong for two days, until he was rescued. The third time he was shot done was when he started his stint in the POW camps and "war criminal" prison...	4 / 843
Prisoners Of War They contained about 500-600 warriors and were divided into groups of under sixteen, older than sixteen, and of course by gender (Male and Female). 3 This caused many problems with the POWs as they were split from their families, and in a lot of cases, never saw one another again...	2 / 515
Bataan Death March One of their tortures was known as the sun treatment. The Philippines in April is very hot. Therefore, the POWs were forced to sit in the sun without any shade, helmets, or water...	3 / 634