A Rumor of War
de Caputo, Philip
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New York, NY, U.S.A.: Owl Books, 1996. Trade Paperback. Near Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. In March of 1965, Marine Lieutenant Philip J. Caputo landed at Danang with the first ground combat unit committed to fight in Vietnam. Sixteen months later, having served on the line in one of modern history's ugliest wars, he returned home physically whole, emotionally wasted, his youthful idealism shattered. A decade later, Caputo would write "A Rumor of War." It was the book that shattered America's deliberate indifference to the fate of the men it sent to fight in the jungles of Vietnam, and in the years since it was first published it has become a basic text on that war. But in the literature of war that stretches back to Homer, it has also taken its place as an esteemed classic. As William Broyles himself a decorated Marine veteran of Vietnam wrote in Texas Monthly, "Not since Siegfried Sassoon's classic of World War I, "Memoirs of an Infantry Officer," has there been a war memoir so obviously true, and so disturbingly honest." 356 pages. "A means of escape" written on inside of front cover top..
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In March 1965, Marine Lieutnant Philip J. Caputo landed in Danang with the first ground combat unit committed to fight in Vietnam. Sixteen months later, having served on the line in one of modern history's ugliest wars, he returned home - physically whole, emotionally wasted, his youthful idealism shattered. A decade later, Caputo would write in A Rumor of War, 'This is simply a story about war, about the things men do in war and the things war does to them'. It is far more then that. It is, as Theodore Solotaroff wrote in the New York Times Book Review, 'the troubled conscience of America speaking passionately, truthfully, finally'. It is the book that shattered America's deliberate indifference to the fate of the men it sent to fight in the jungles of Vietnam, and in the years since it was first published it has become a basic text on that war. But in the literature of war that stretches back to Homer, it has also taken its place as an esteemed classic to rank alongside All Quiet on the Western Front and The Naked and the Dead.
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El Mar 19 2005, Sophjacksam dijo:
Philip Caputo's book, A Rumor of War, is great for those who have already educated themselves on the Vietnam conflict and for those who are just beginning to learn about this important part of our history. Caputo tells the tells the story from his viewpoint, as the book his based on his time in Vietnam, and it discusses the transition from a civilian to green lieutenant to a member of the anti-war movement. It is a very moving story of how normal people can do extraordinary and sometimes terrible things. Things are not always black and white. War often brings out the best and worst in those involved.
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- A Rumor of War
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- Caputo, Philip
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- New York, NY, U.S.A.: Owl Books, 1996
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- SOLDIERS UNITED STATES MARINE CORPS BIOGRAPHY VIETNAMESE CONFLICT 1961 1975 PERSONAL NARRATIVES AUTOBIOGRAPHY MILITARY HISTORY VIETNAM WAR 080504695X
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