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If you loved Dispatches

Books like Dispatches

If you loved Dispatches by Michael Herr, these are the books its readers love most, closest first: chosen from the ratings and recommendations of the readers who loved it.

No. 1

We Were Soldiers Once... and Young: Ia Drang - The Battle that Changed the War in Vietnam

Harold G. Moore, Joseph L. Galloway

No. 2

The Things They Carried

Tim O'Brien

No. 3

With the Old Breed: At Peleliu and Okinawa

Eugene B. Sledge, Paul Fussell

No. 4

Generation Kill: Devil Dogs, Iceman, Captain America, and the New Face of American War

Evan Wright

No. 5

The Making of the Atomic Bomb

Richard Rhodes

No. 6

An Army at Dawn: The War in North Africa, 1942-1943 (World War II Liberation Trilogy, #1)

Rick Atkinson

No. 7

Hell's Angels: A Strange and Terrible Saga

Hunter S. Thompson

No. 8

Black Hawk Down

Mark Bowden

No. 9

The Right Stuff

Tom Wolfe

No. 10

Matterhorn

Karl Marlantes

No. 11

The Looming Tower: Al-Qaeda and the Road to 9/11

Lawrence Wright

No. 12

Homicide: A Year on the Killing Streets

David Simon

No. 13

Outer Dark

Cormac McCarthy

No. 14

The Day of the Locust

Nathanael West, Alfred Kazin

No. 15

Johnny Got His Gun

Dalton Trumbo

No. 16

The Pacific

Hugh Ambrose

No. 17

Ghost Wars: The Secret History of the CIA, Afghanistan, and bin Laden from the Soviet Invasion to September 10, 2001

Steve Coll

No. 18

Flags of Our Fathers

James D. Bradley, Ron Powers

No. 19

Look Homeward, Angel

Thomas Wolfe

No. 20

One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest

Ken Kesey

No. 21

Undaunted Courage: The Pioneering First Mission to Explore America's Wild Frontier

Stephen E. Ambrose

No. 22

War

Sebastian Junger

No. 23

Cod: A Biography of the Fish that Changed the World

Mark Kurlansky

No. 24

The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test

Tom Wolfe