Dispatches BN_Top_100 For a thousand years Constantinople

For a thousand years Constantinople was quite simply "the city": fabulously wealthy

Everyone knows that you can't fall in love with your best friend's sister

and silhouettes

Examples include exquisite de Gournay wallpaper paired with suspended lamps in a variety of geometric forms and the terrazzo floor of a city foyer

and a city at the brink

Dispatches BN_Top_100 For a thousand years Constantinople"The best book to have been written about the Vietnam War" (The New York Times Book Review); an instant classic straight from the front lines. From its terrifying opening pages to its final eloquent words, Dispatches makes us see, in unforgettable and unflinching detail, the chaos and fervor of the war and the surreal insanity of life in that singular combat zone. Michael Herrs unsparing, unorthodox retellings of the day to day events in Vietnam take