Read Dispatches

A French girl and a Chinese man in colonial Saigon; Duras at 70 remembering.

Three steelworkers from Pennsylvania go to Vietnam; the Russian roulette scenes.

Heart of Darkness up the Nung River, with helicopters and Wagner.

Orwell fights in the Spanish Civil War, is shot through the throat and sees the revolution betrayed.

T. E. Lawrence's own account of the Arab Revolt.

Voices of the liquidators, widows and resettled villagers; Alexievich's Nobel oral history.

Sacco in a Bosnian enclave during the war; the second reportage comic.

Watch the classic war film Full Metal Jacket directed by Stanley Kubrick