Michael Herr has died. He was 76. He wrote the greatest book about war, one of the greatest non-fiction books you might ever read.
I first came across Herr’s name – and extracts of his work – in the extra reading around the very best university class I took; perhaps the only one that stuck. It was a course focussing on The New Journalism of the late 1960…
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