Novelist John le Carré called it "the best book I have ever read on men and war in our time."
Then, in 1977, he went on the road with rock and roller Ted Nugent and wrote about the experience in a 1978 cover story for Crawdaddy magazine.
He co-wrote the screenplay for the film Full Metal Jacket (1987) with director Stanley Kubrick and author Gustav Hasford.
Herr collaborated with Richard Stanley in writing the original screenplay for the 1996 film The Island of Dr. Moreau based on the H.G.
However, Stanley claims the subsequent rewrites cost Herr his writing credit, omitting most of the material created by the two writers.