A Rumor of War

Caputo, Philip

ISBN 10: 080504695X / ISBN 13: 9780805046953

Published by Holt Paperbacks, 1996

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: A Rumor of War
• Publisher: Holt Paperbacks
• Publication Date: 1996
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 080504695X
• ISBN 13: 9780805046953
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: Acceptable

About this title

Synopsis

The classic Vietnam memoir, as relevant today as it was almost thirty years ago.

In March of 1965, Marine Lieutenent Philip J. Caputo landed at Da Nang with the first ground combat unit deployed to Vietnam. Sixteen months later, having served on the line in one of modern history's ugliest wars, he returned home―physically whole but emotionally wasted, his youthful idealism forever gone.
A Rumor of War is more than one soldier's story. Upon its publication in 1977, it shattered America's indifference to the fate of the men sent to fight in the jungles of Vietnam. In the years since then, it has become not only a basic text on the Vietnam War but also a renowned classic in the literature of wars throughout history and, as Caputo explains, of "the things men do in war and the things war does to men."

"A singular and marvelous work." ―The New York Times

About the Author

Philip Caputo worked nine years for the Chicago Tribune and shared a Pulitzer Prize in 1972 for his reporting on election fraud in Chicago. The author of seven works of fiction and a second volume of memoir, he divides his time between Connecticut and Arizona.