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Books like Dispatches

Dispatches by Michael Herr is about vietnam war, war journalism, psychological trauma. If that's what drew you in, here are 6 books that share its DNA — each summarized on Superbook, and ready to chat with in the app.

  1. The Forever War
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    The Forever War

    Dexter Filkins · History

    Dexter Filkins spent more than a decade covering the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq for the New York Times, and The Forever War is his attempt to render what he witnessed in a form that is closer to literature than journalism.

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  2. The Things They Carried
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    The Things They Carried

    Tim O'Brien · Memoir

    Tim O'Brien served as a foot soldier in Vietnam in 1969 and 1970.

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  3. Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption
    Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption

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    Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption

    Laura Hillenbrand · Biography

    Unbroken follows Louis Zamperini from his juvenile delinquency in Depression-era California to the 1936 Berlin Olympics, where he ran the 5,000 meters at nineteen and briefly caught Hitler's attention.

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  4. Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland
    Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland

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    Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland

    Patrick Radden Keefe · History

    Say Nothing opens with a scene that sets its register precisely: Jean McConville, a widowed mother of ten, is dragged from her Belfast flat by a gang of masked strangers in December 1972 and never seen alive again.

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  5. 10% Happier
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    10% Happier

    Dan Harris · Memoir

    10% Happier is Dan Harris's account of discovering meditation after a panic attack live on Good Morning America in 2004 forced him to confront an anxiety problem he'd been managing with cocaine and a punishing work schedule.

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  6. A Grief Observed
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    A Grief Observed

    C. S. Lewis · Memoir

    A Grief Observed is C.

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