Tim Beck’s Reviews > Dispatches > Status Update

A pungent pill to swallow. a punch to the gut. DISPATCHES is a terrible war story (because all war stories are terrible). A perfect companion to Tim O’Brien’s The Things They Carried - an honest collection of Vietnam stories from the perspective of a grunt. O’Brien crafts his stories in a way that the lie tells the truth of the horrors of war. Herr, a press observer, tells the truth of the lies of war. Horror.